Mental Quotes

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.