Danica McKellar Quotes

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

You play more games, you get more maturity, and you get smarter.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain.

We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.

Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.