Mental Quotes - page 5

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. (Cesare Pavese)
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion. View quote
Claude Bernard
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. View quote
Steve Biko
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul. View quote
Hans Hofmann
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. View quote
Frederick Douglass
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. View quote
Glenn Gould
There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The concept of "mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad. (Ronald David Laing)
Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it? View quote
Ken Kesey
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental. View quote
Ken Kesey
A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc. View quote
Kyuzo Mifune
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect. View quote
Dion Fortune
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness-to the individual himself and to others-and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Chess is mental torture. View quote
Garry Kasparov
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. View quote
Garry Kasparov
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game. (Garry Kasparov)
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The true investor scarcely ever has to sell his shares, and at all other times he is free di disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more. Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons mistakes of judgement. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force. View quote
Edgar Cayce