Quotes About Mental

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

I think more with my head - things are 90 per cent in your head, and everything else comes after that.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without golf and baseball. Golf, for the mental side of the game, being able to focus on the now and take one shot at a time.

Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

I'm a perfectionist and I've always been interested in growing and I think that has given me the mental fortitude to continue.

My mental state is perfectly fine.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

So much of performing is a mind game.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Reasoning doesn't revamp consciousness

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

As soon as you declare it a test, your body is going to secrete adrenaline, because you will be saying to yourself, "Uh-oh. I'd better do well," while you simultaneously imagine yourself failing. That process will cause you to feel anxious. The more you set up future events as tests, the more you are going to feel anxious.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Men's minds are sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad; moods don't always stay the same! To make an issue of it amounts to harassment.

You know what it's like,' he said. 'You earn just enough to get by but at the end of the day there's nothing left mentally, and so you cling to the job even harder.