53 Quotes by Kevin Horsley

We are training our brains to have an attention deficit. A lot of people simply cannot focus for an extended period of time anymore. I have heard that the average person looks at their mobile phone about 50 times a day. We are reading emails, the news, Facebook, and Twitter etc., during what should be family and relationship time.

If your brain was unable to make images out of symbols, all learning and reading would be worthless and incredibly boring. Your brain likes pictures and we are really good at remembering them.

Information can only be built onto more information, so the more you know the easier it is to get to know more.

Driving with a mobile phone makes you hit the brakes 0.5 seconds slower. If you are travelling at 112km per hour, in 0.5seconds you travel 15.5 meters... a lot can happen over that distance. If you are distracted in your car, you have a 9 times higher chance of having an accident.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb,” said Pythagoras.

People simply don’t do it because they think that the future will be a better place than today, without doing anything to make it better.

There is no scientific evidence to prove that learning should be serious.

There was once a fish that lived in a pond. One day, he met another fish that used to live in the sea. The pond fish asked, “What is the sea?” and the sea fish said, “It is a vast amount of water that is a million, million times bigger than your pond.” The pond fish never talked to the sea fish again because he thought the sea fish was a liar. What can we learn from this?

Chaos is the sexiest excuse for laziness ever invented.