Quotes About Mental

Not the perception of the proportion of things outside of us but the experience of identification with whatever's outside of us (this is obviously a physical impossibility ; that's why it's a mental responsibility).

Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.

The realization of what was happening meant that I had to shift mental gears. There is, after all, fighting. And then there is fighting. It's a point I continually try to bring home to people in Yamashita's dojo. They don't really get it—it's something you have to experience for yourself. But it's not something I wish on anyone.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life!

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.

That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

You'd find ideas firing around like kernels in a popcorn machine:

Worry becomes what attention turns into when it isn't focused on some task.

Exercise is probably the best natural antianxiety, antiworry agent we have.

To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion, our existence depends on this propensity, our spirit is woven from it hope rises on its currents.

work in social psychology has made it clear that cognitive control is a limited resource. When a teacher taps on a dozing student's desk and says: "Pay attention!" it turns out that this is not a metaphor: attention is costly, and if it is "spent" on one task there is less available to spend on another. This phenomenon is known as "ego depletion". ... The moral? Effort is effort, mental or physical.