Quotes About Mental

every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power. Deciding to "not decide" about an e-mail or anything else is another one of those decisions, which drains your psychological fuel tank.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

What's a good idea?" is a good question, but only when you're about 80 percent of the way through your thinking! Starting there would probably blow anyone's creative mental fuses.

Most people let their reactive mental process run a lot of the show, especially where the too-much-to-do syndrome is concerned.

Rule your mind or it will rule you. —Horace Between

You must use your mind to get things off your mind. An

the focus we hold in our minds affects what we perceive and how we perform.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. —Sally Kempton

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them.

Grand master of memory? What did she have to do?" "Three tasks. The first was to memorize one thousand random numbers in an hour. Next, she had to memorize the order of ten decks of cards in an hour. And lastly, memorize the order of one deck of cards in under two minutes.

At least for most people. The way I'm wired I remember pretty much everything as it actually happened

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals.

The moment you have a certain thought and believe it, you will experience an immediate emotional response. Your thought actually creates the emotion.

This isn't a new idea. Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them." In the Book of Proverbs (23: 7) in the Old Testament you can find this passage: "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." And even Shakespeare expressed a similar idea when he said: "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2).

you can change your mood by changing how you think.

Your moody thoughts are likely to be entirely different from those you have when you are not upset.

Hope alone is a powerful antidepressant.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set up internal stress about the prospect of internal stress.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic.' 'I give.' 'You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

That most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans.