Quotes About Mental

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.

To you things that aren't thinkable in intellectual terms aren't worth thinking about.

Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.

The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.

The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the mind's own and is not shared with the body.

The same is true of patience or mental quickness. A brain like a sponge and an even temper are all very well in one who minds the proper use of such things; to anyone else, they may bring harm.

SOCRATES: This, in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher might do. In just this way, our two speeches placed all [266] mental derangements into one common kind.

Love is a serious mental illness.

El amor es una grave enfermedad mental.

It bears repeating: the mental states needed to compete are not always socially palatable.

Ii dau de lucru mintii si-ami amagesc durerea A' mele suferinte incerc sa mi le-nsel.

I had really lost her, and the madness with which I avenged my mistakes on myself, by assaulting my physical self in several senseless ways in order to punish my moral self, contributed very much to the bodily ills under which I lost some of the best years of my life.