Quotes About Mental

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

Going through your reads, there is always an answer. And if you consistently, from a mental standpoint as a quarterback, go through your reads, you always give your team a chance to win.

I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.