Quotes About Mental

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

When you're in survival mode, you numb yourself.

Survival is not just a physical thing. It's a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might say what's wrong with him, and I'll figure out what I was saying and start going again.

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

There are days when you are busy even without having work as you are going for auditions. So you are not acting in a way. To sustain yourself mentally, physically, emotionally is challenging for sure.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

I approach my work still like an athlete. I have to go to the gym and run or ride the bike and work up a sweat. I need to still get my body right, and, in turn, that will make my mind right. That's how I approach acting.

I can be proud of every swim, every effort I put in the water, every mental approach to every single race.

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf. There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it's time to play in competition, you don't want to think too many thoughts.

It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.

My brain acts bizarrely and I keep having major mood swings.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

Playing against Messi, as I've said before, is as tough a test of your concentration as any in football. At any moment, he can take the mickey out of you. Physically, it is demanding, but mentally even more so. You cannot switch off.

I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

I have modes, mental modes that I get in, and when I'm on the road, I focus very much on doing the work. On playing the show, on being good every night. And part of me just gets switched off. The part that's very private and very personal and very intimate. That especially, that part of me gets shut off.

When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.

I think when people are abusing drugs it is probably a symptom of a bigger problem that they need to address.

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.

I have been very blessed in that I have been completely fine. No headaches, no depression... absolutely no signs of post-concussion syndrome.

I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.