Quotes About Psychology

The mental side of sports, it's huge. It's such a massive part of the game.

Confidence, you have to build it when you play some matches.

I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Fear is a normal human response. It certainly is for me.

I kind of think the rookie wall is all in your mind, to be completely honest.

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

I can't watch most movies because they scare me too much.

When I ask 'What's the film that scared you the most?' I'm really asking 'What scares you the most?'

I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.

Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

When you score in the first minutes, everything changes.

The ego is not master in its own house.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

I get panic attacks about dying, it's terrible. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my brain goes 'you're going to die, you're going to die, you're going to die.'

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.