Mental Quotes - page 3

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands. (Novak Djokovic)
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut. View quote
Tom Perrotta
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. View quote
Kate Millett
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. View quote
Bo Bennett
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. View quote
Bobby Scott
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. View quote
Christy Turlington
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. (Polly Toynbee)
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. View quote
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back. View quote
Tatum O'Neal
Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology. View quote
Jean Piaget
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. View quote
Thomas Paine
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar. View quote
George Henry Lewes
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. View quote
John Forbes Nash
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. (Ayn Rand)
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. View quote
Sylvia Plath
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical-I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear. View quote
Roger Federer
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. View quote
Martin H. Fischer