Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.
This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.
It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.
You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
I think anybody that catches shares a bond. You know what it takes to play the position from a physical and mental standpoint.
You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
I think, these days when someone talks about their struggles of mental health, we are almost surprised by it. It comes as a revelation and we all really acknowledge it.
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
It's so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health.
I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.
You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don't know, but it sure as hell is effective.
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
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.
I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.
It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.
Here are the ingredients of a tragedy: untreated mental illness, a society where life is cheap and crime is glamorized, and a ready supply of firearms.
I've been doing a lot of yoga to help with my running, recovery, and mental clarity. It works great for me.
It's a lot to deal with someone who is going through mental health issues; that talk starts to take a toll on you.
When the physical threat of coronavirus subsides, as it surely will, we must address the impact to our mental health.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.
You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.
I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects.
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
I think more people should be open to talking about mental health issues. Instead of holding in so much.
People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I'm the strongest dude you're ever going to meet.
I think when you go through any surgery, your body changes. And with that, it can be probably the toughest mental challenge you're gonna face.
Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.
I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good.
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.
Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It's not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.
Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.
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