Quotes About Mental

Control yourself, not your dreams.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

Now if I don't take exercise I feel a bit frazzled.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

It's hard to focus on a fight when your heart is broken and you're not happy in your relationship, especially if that's your coach. That's like fighting without one leg.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

When I'm getting ready for a fight - when I'm in that locker room or I'm making that walk and I finally get to the Octagon - it's all spiritual.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

For Lewis, praise is not only a natural part of life, but also one of the most important traits of a healthy mind. He observes, "The humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praised least." He sums it up this way: "Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more sorrowful than a brain whose proper function has been disrupted?

What if the child's dependence on her twin is so great that the separation causes a mental trauma such that the damaged mind provides solace by the creation of an imaginary twin, a fantasy companion? We arrived at no satisfactory conclusion but parted with the satisfaction of having located another area of future study: linguistics.

I think your father believes that the interest so many people take in puzzles and problems — which often starts in earliest childhood — represents more than a mere desire for recreation; that it may even derive from man's eternal curiosity about his origin. Anyway, it makes use of certain faculties for progressive, cumulative search which no other mental exercise does.

it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.