Quotes About Mental

A good memory, I'm sure," Zen returned. "But a memory nonetheless.

You must use your mind and not let it use you.

The possibility of shaking off old mental models is enticing, but the quest for new ones comes with caveats. First, always remember that 'the map is not the territory', as the philosopher Alfred Korzybski put it: every model can only ever be a model, a necessary simplification of the world, and one that should never be mistaken for the real thing. Second, there is no correct pre-analytic vision, true paradigm or perfect frame out there to be discovered.

I've always believed in the Nero Wolfe theory of knowledge. You can just sit quietly in your room - according to Pascal, the activity that if practiced more assiduously would free humanity from most of its troubles, but that was before e-mail - and through sheer mental effort force the tiniest snippets of information to yield the entire story of which they are a fragment, because the whole truth is contained in every particle of it, the way every human cell contains our DNA.

To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I know I am incapable of courage unless I have decided to give my life. Without that choice, there is nothing but flight. But you take such a decision on the spur of the moment and you cannot make it last for weeks and months. The mental effort is too great. Hence the rarity of true courage. We generally accept a kind of lame compromise between the destiny and the man, which reason rejects.

We have some very suggestive evidence that the use of pesticides and herbicides affects our mental function and brain physiology, including increasing the incidence of Parkinson's disease up to seven times in those most heavily exposed to them. This is not exactly a surprise when we realize that pesticides are designed to be neurotoxic to the pests.

I have a pain that exists only in my head," she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. "I have had it my whole life. But when I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can't go on." Alabaster studied Emily. "I think it is your glasses. They are far too small for your face. You should go see the optometrist.

I have a pain that exists only in my head," she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. "I have had it my whole life. But when I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can't go on.

The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

Still . . . my mom may have been trying to get me not to worry. I am "neurotic." "Neurotic" means "I think about things until I am sick.

Because if you really want to die, I can put you under psychiatric observation." "I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time. Do you think I'm crazy?

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

To be inflexible to the change around you is to live in fear. Qigong is a useful tool to improve your flexibility, both mental and physical.

La soledad es algo que sólo existe en la mente, no fuera de ella, y, que, como un virus, es incapaz de sobrevivir sin un anfitrión que lo acoja.

Diagnosis, for example, is often irrelevant to mental health law questions.96

Media multitaskers actually experience a thrill with switching—a burst of dopamine—that can be addictive. Without

The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course: the space between your ears. —BOBBY JONES

You have to train your mind like you train your body. —BRUCE JENNER

One key to achieving success in sports is learning how to focus on the task and not let negative thoughts intrude.