Quotes About Mental

If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.

He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.

a mad man has all the advantages on his side.

Brains. Brains. What do we really mean by the term? In your idiom you would say that Jane Wilkinson has the brains of a rabbit. That is a term of disparagement. But consider the rabbit for a moment. He exists and multiplies, does he not? That, in Nature, is a sign of mental superiority.

People who ought to die of shock and exposure don't die of shock and exposure, et cetera, et cetera. The human frame is tougher than one can imagine possible. Moreover, in my experience, a physical shock is more often fatal than a mental shock.

deadly logic is one of the special characteristics of acute mania.

suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...

He was tired because he had been thinking. Thinking was always exhausting.

Su fuerza reside en la voluntad, no en su brazo.

Ah! Have I got to tell you thirty-six times, and then again thirty-six, that there is no need of physical effort? One needs only-to think.

Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.

And you must remember that anyone who's mentally unhinged has a good deal of unsuspected strength.

I adore men with values and women who are devoid of them" -James "The Buck" Bukowitz from Mental Hell

There's a thin line between obsession and derangement, and I'm not at all sure the professor hasn't crossed it.

Until the hands are truly "interlocked," such fingers will seem perverse. The difficulty is mental, not physical. Once the pianist has grasped the notion that he does not have two separate hands, but a single unit of ten digits, he has made an advance towards Liszt.

Until the hands are truly "interlocked," such fingerings will seem perverse. The difficulty is mental, not physical. Once the pianist has grasped the notion that he does not have two separate hands, but a single unit of ten digits, he has made an advance towards Liszt

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

I have a photographic memory.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.