Processing Quotes

“Yes, forgetting can be a curse, especially as we age. But forgetting is also one of the more important things healthy brains do, almost as important as remembering. Think how quickly the sheer volume and multiplicity of sensory information we receive every waking minute would overwhelm our consciousness if we couldn’t quickly forget a great deal more of it than we remember.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it into digestible upgrade instructions for your average village cyborg-idiot.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.”
― Mike Schmoker, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement

“It was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“People aren't good at processing important things when they're naked”
― Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

“I'll catch any rose in my vase-shaped heart, then process it through my vascular system, until there's nothing left.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“I have found awareness to be one of the most rewarding, and yet one of the most painful journeys one can embark on.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads”
― Ronald T. Potter-Efron

“The process of acceptance is to train your mind to focus on what you have.”
― Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance

“Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language.”
― Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

“when you are passionate about the world a stare writes your life.”
― Gwen Calvo