Psychology Quote by Dan Simmons

“But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative…

— Dan Simmons

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems…

— David Hume

“But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or…

— Chang-rae Lee

“The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”

— Idowu Koyenikan

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

— Jane Fonda

“Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

— Plato

The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” -Idowu…

— Anonymous