Quotes About Mental

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.

E numa derradeira irritação terrena, o infeliz ainda chamou o filho de "essa besta" e a mulher de "débil mental".

Desire is the mainspring of the mental machinery. It is a blessed thing. It is a right and natural craving which has a state of consciousness as its right and natural satisfaction.

What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.

There is no stopping the man who can think from the end. Nothing can stop him. He creates the means and grows his way out of limitation into ever greater and greater mansions of the Lord. It does not matter what he has been or what he is. All that matters is 'what does he want'? He knows that the world is a manifestation of the mental activity which goes on within himself, so he strives to determine and control the ends from which he thinks.

Your imagination is able to do all that you ask in proportion to the degree of your attention. All progress, all fulfillment of desire depend upon the control and concentration of your attention. Attention is attracted from without when you are consciously with the external impressions of the immediate present... Your attention is directed from within when you deliberately choose what you will be preoccupied with mentally.

While directing your energy toward "making things fair" is often counterproductive, channeling your spiritual, mental, and physical energy toward achieving meaningful goals is a constructive investment of time.

I only wish that when I was younger I could've understood what alcoholism really is—a genetic mutation, a mental illness, and a lifelong battle. Maybe then I would've been able to recognize the signs of my own budding alcoholism before my whole life was taken over.

Sometimes it seemed that half the people around her were in states of collapse.

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)

When our brain is overtaxed, we find "distractions more distracting.

if, knowing what we know today about the brain's plasticity, you were to set out to invent a medium that would rewire our mental circuits as quickly and thoroughly as possible, you would probably end up designing something that looks and works a lot like the Internet.

These include all the tools we use to extend or support our mental powers—to find and classify information, to formulate and articulate ideas, to share know-how and knowledge, to take measurements and perform calculations, to expand the capacity of our memory.

Failure to improve is rarely a physical failure; it's almost always an entirely mental shortcoming.

Many of us like to use runs as a time to escape daily life, to think through problems, to get away from it all. In other words, when we run, we use our mental energy to deal with issues other than running. While this may be somewhat therapeutic, it won't make you a better runner.

In order for you to improve as a runner, a truce must be declared. In order for a truce to be declared, the conscious mind must comprehend what's going on in the subconscious mind.

La peur est tellement envahissante, tellement omniprésente, qu'elle en devient presque normale. Il n'en demeure pas moins que vivre sous l'emprise de la peur, même quand elle ne vous quitte jamais, est une expérience éprouvante [...].

You know the issue of ELF, extremely low frequencies, affecting mental states of individuals is not new. It goes back to Yale University, the work of Jose Delgado, which is well recognized in the literature. He started first using implants within the brain, and then used radio frequency with implants, and eventually he found that energy at 150th of what the earth naturally produces could in fact in certain frequency ranges trigger huge mood swings.

Notice how broadly Mill set his harm principle. It is not enough to say that people who hate the idea of homosexuality suffer mental distress at the knowledge that it is legal. They must suffer actual harm, and as they do not, they cannot prohibit it.

I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

hypermanic – that's one level below becoming a full-on manic depressive.

With creation and function came peace. With mental fortitude came strength and the banishment of weakness.

If you adjust your conscious filters to the appropriate setting, you can relax and let your subconscious take care of things. It's something I used to be good at.

Being puzzled mad him anxious. Being anxious made him angry.