Mental Quotes - page 10

Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world. (Bob Proctor)
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way? View quote
Garth Stein
Homeopathy has been of tremendous value in reversing diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, skin eruptions, allergic conditions, mental or emotional disorders, especially if applied at the onset of the disease. View quote
George Vithoulkas
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
For two things both to believe that snow is white, they need not to be physically similar in any specifiable way, but they must both be in a "functional" condition or state specifiable in the most functional language; they must share a Turing machine description according to which they are both in some particular logical state (which is roughly like two different computers having the same program and being in the same "place" in the program). ... it is a type functionalism-each mental type is identifiable as a functional type in the language of Turing machine description. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes. View quote
Deb Caletti
It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. View quote
Daniel Quinn
Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks. View quote
James Patterson
Yeah sure, why not?"i said, making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped to his back.” -max. View quote
James Patterson
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. (Joan Aiken)
You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent. View quote
Joseph Murphy
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness? View quote
E. Lockhart
I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small. View quote
E. Lockhart
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. View quote
Emmet Fox
Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. "Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.” Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home... View quote
Eric McCormack
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. View quote
Eric McCormack
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. View quote
Quincy Jones
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months. View quote
Liz Murray
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it. (Lisa Gardner)
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men. View quote
Lisa See
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized. View quote
Lee Strasberg
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession. View quote
Timothy Shay Arthur
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. View quote
Bo Bennett