Quotes About Mental

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise to a certain kind of space. ("Introduction")

Knowledge is something we can all increase, but only slowly. People who haven't stayed mentally active have little hope of catching up to lifelong learners.

Need for cognition" is the psychological term for the tendency to engage in and enjoy hard mental slogs. [...] superforecasters score high in need-for-cognition tests.

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Ambivalence, I think, is the chief characteristic of my nation. There isn't a Russian executioner who isn't scared of turning victim one day, nor is there the sorriest victim who would not acknowledge (if only to himself) a mental ability to become an executioner. JOSEPH BRODSKY

In the materialist conception, mind is the agent of the body; in the Freudian conception, as it gradually emerged through these early years of uncertainty, the body exists as a symptom of mental demands.

It is just as if some phenzy-struck person supposed himself to be grappling with an imaginary combatant, and then, having with great efforts thrown himself down, thought that it was his foe who was lying there;

it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was better placed to explain his behaviour and his experiences than anyone else. Yet wherever Kirsch went, the patient was the very last person anyone thought to consult. Because, of course, the patient was insane.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Those with no problems must find them to use the worry parts of their brains.

When fathers contested custody, even of infants, "good enough" mothers would consistently lose children due to (false) allegations of mental illness or sexual promiscuity.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.

I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises - something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it's just going faster than it should.

Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.