Cognitive State Quotes

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.

I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

My mind gets into a verbal mode.

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.