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“The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.”

Given Wish Brain Easier Waste Appreciate I've Learned Wasting Time Things I've Learned

Author:Laini Taylor

“Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.”

Source: Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance

“I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.”

Thinking Sports Hours Brain Records Waste Cells Fifty Let It Go Brain Cells

Author:Mark McGwire

“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.”

Brain Worry Stupid Waste Evidence Ill Controlled Wasting Time Calisthenics

Author:Arnold Bennett

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.”

Ifs Want Brain Waste Forgiving Cells Brain Cells

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.”

Thinking I Can Remember Mother Brain Waste Worn

Author:Florence Welch

“Chess is a sad waste of brains.”

Brain Waste Chess

Author:Walter Scott

“There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut”

Men Humans Wells Stills Body Energy Can Do Brain Wise Limits Waste Pursuit Wiser Human Body Human Brain No Energy

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.”

Ifs Men Time Brain Worry Stupid Waste Evidence Men And Women Ill Stupidity Controlled Wasting Time Foolishness Calisthenics

Author:Arnold Bennett