Quotes About Mental

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

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

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

For me, I try not to think about it too much, because you find that if you think about it too much, then you start to panic at every little thing that goes on in training.

When you play a big server, you are under enormous pressure on your own serve because you cannot afford to be broken. That causes a lot of players to panic: you see double faults or tentative serves. It's all in the mind, but it still happens.

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

Sleep deprivation over quite a short period of time can make you paranoid.

Forget the running and the jogging. Being so paranoid about being obese is the thing that kills you.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

Crowds, I'm not good in crowds. I almost had a mental breakdown, I almost lost my cool at Disneyland one time when the park was closing, and I turn around and saw just a sea of people coming at me and a stroller full of kids.

I'm settled emotionally and mentally because of my partner, and a lot of my growth has happened post-marriage.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

Ask yourself whether the letter K appears more often as the first or as the third letter of English words. You will probably answer that it appears more often as the first letter. Actually, K appears as the third letter twice as often. Why the error? We find it easier to recall words with a certain letter at the beginning than words with that same letter somewhere else.

she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That's how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.

You don't get your self mixed up with any other self. Of course, the mind must also protect, maintain, and perpetuate itself—if it gets lost or damaged, it can't do its job. The mind unceasingly promotes the interests of the one who "possesses" it, and all its mental/emotional activity is calculated to get this one body-mind through every moment of life in the most secure manner it can conceive.

Train your brain to gain.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The mind was a trap--it was a cage that slammed down over you.