Mental Demand Quotes

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

Centre-back takes more out of you mentally than physically.

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.