Quotes About Mental

The Department of the Army's Field Manual 3-05.70 states about survival: A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individual involved.

Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it and the second time when it happens.

how "intense mental activity hinders perception." They found that it wasn't just emotional arousal that altered the size of the pupil: Mental effort had the same effect. There was, quite possibly, as they put it, "an antagonism between thinking and perceiving.

He'd now awakened to the possibility that at least one of his mental models badly distorted reality: his model of American government.

people had the ability to hold in their short-term memory seven items, more or less.

They were an invisible mob inside an ivory tower. The calls themselves irritated rather than informed her. "They'd do mental masturbation," said Charity. "Mental masturbation is actually an important concept. It's when you talk in circles for an hour and reach no decision.

Theories for Amos were like mental pockets or briefcases, places to put the ideas you wanted to keep. Until you could replace a theory with a better theory—a theory that better predicted what actually happened—you didn't chuck a theory out. Theories ordered knowledge, and allowed for better prediction.

Amos was not merely an optimist; Amos willed himself to be optimistic, because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

Amos willed himself to be optimistic, because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired.

Emotional trauma of the living may overwhelm their inner minds to such an extent that their mental capabilities to communicate with souls are inhibited.

For me, "spiritual" is a good name for some of the powerful mental phenomena that arise when the voice of the ego is muted or silenced. If nothing else, these journeys have shown me how that psychic construct—at once so familiar and on reflection so strange—stands between us and some striking new dimensions of experience, whether of the world outside us or of the mind within.

forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

it would be a big mistake if medicalization is all that happens." Why a mistake? Because Bob Jesse was ultimately less interested in people's mental problems than with their spiritual well-being—in using entheogens for the betterment of well people.

kinds of mental disorders characterized by mental rigidity: addiction, depression, obsession.

psychedelics enhance neuroplasticity.

Food is a costly antidepressant.

Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.