Quotes About Mental warfare

My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn't matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

The warrior has awareness...we are aware that we are at war , and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.

Early in its education every mind learns how to use words to threaten, to punish, and to destroy. If that fact sounded harsh to his apprentices, he had only to remind them of how they spoke to themselves—how they attacked themselves on a daily basis. The mind is its own kind of predator, whether it belongs to the body of a bashful woman or a brawny man.

The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.

what greater enemy does one have than oneself?

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

We've got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore's head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways.

The game the mind must play to unleash destruction. He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.

Two sets of memory warred in the woman, and the war was getting worse.

And somehow they would be less than human then. The game the mind must play to unleash destruction

I lock receivers down physically and then mentally I get into their mind, get under their skin. I talk my talk. Whatever I'm going to say.

Don't try to stay ten moves ahead of your opponent. Stay behind him with a knife.

A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.

The battle between your current state and your desired state cannot be won without a powerful weapon called CHOICE. Your choice determines you.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

A game of chess, then, where all the pieces are invisible!" "If you like," said Greyson.

Everyone wanted her to be happy; that was the lie of their age, that being happy was the goal. Take the pills, be happy, forget that the sky had been torn from the world this summer. But she was a country at war, its territory invaded, citizens slaughtered, fighting for its survival.

One of the worst things we can do when we are battling the enemy's onslaughts and our mind is under siege is to speak. I do not mean we should avoid asking for help or grow silent in some corner; I am talking about verbalizing the demonic thoughts, speculations or lofty things being propagated against us. Articulating these poisonous arrows only helps assimilate them into our hearts and live them out in our souls.

Además, la mente era el arma más poderosa que uno tenía para atacar a los demás y para destruirse a sí mismo.