Quotes About Mental

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics) "Once the future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing and it will fight very hard to bring itself about." —Stephanie Garber

The running joke is that the lack of sex makes people more intense, winds them up, messes with their heads. But it's not a joke. It's a critical need, and in my view, something whose contribution to the human condition and mental health can't be minimized.

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics)

Our desire for sleep, like our desire for food, obeys a law of satiation. The attempt to circumvent this law will cause impaired mental and physical performance.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

When you wish to change your life, change your thoughts and create mental pictures of what you desire.

We could all work up a nervous breakdown in thirty seconds, if we really wanted to.

En conclusión, la experiencia del yo relativo está ligada a la existencia de una coherencia global del continuo mental que puede ser algoritmizada. Esta coherencia global algorítmica constituye el tema básico de la personalidad. Cuando este tema básico es identificado y observado se provoca un estado de conciencia en el cual desaparece el yo y toda conceptualización.

La sintaxis de los procesos mentales, asociada a la experiencia del yo, es un proceso, por lo que la tesis de este libro conceptualiza al yo como una idea que se ve reforzada.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore

If the first type of commonsense error is that our mental model of individual behavior is systematically flawed, the second type is that our mental model of collective behavior is even worse.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

If you hold on to the negative, there is no room for the positive to come into your life.

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.