Mental Speed Quotes

Not all speed is movement.

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

He must be lightning slow.

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.