“The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.”
“Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I’m pretty normal.”
“If you can’t pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.”
“I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.”
“As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.”
“Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with – physical, emotional, and mental.”
“Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what’s important.”
“As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.”
“Jealousy… is a mental cancer.”
“I have a mental age of about 17. Far too young for marriage.”
“When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.”
“Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.”
“Bravo can’t be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.”
“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.”
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
“I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.”
“The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.”
“Focusing isn’t just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.”
“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.”
“Fitness, defending, the mental stuff – those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.”
“You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.”
“Ninety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far.”
“Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.”
“Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.”
“I exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else.”
“I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.”
“I think the biggest part of my game that’s underestimated is the mental part of it.”
“Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.”
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”
“You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there’s more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.”
“A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.”
“Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.”
“It’s a tricky thing to play mental illness or being connected to a higher sensibility.”
“We’re all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.”
“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.”
“The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.”
“’Stupidity’ defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we’ve never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we’ve never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.”
“I have a high tolerance for pain – both physical and mental.”
“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
“I’m really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they’re reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.”
“Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.”
“The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It’s the mental toughness.”
“The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.”
“Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.”
“Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.”
“In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.”
“Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.”
“There was mental and physical abuse in my family.”
“Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.”
“Mental health is something that I’m very interested in.”
“I’m not really interested in promoting ‘Olive’ as a series about depression or mental illness.”
“I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.”
“People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.”
“We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.”
“Chess is mental torture.”
“The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.”
“The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.”
“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
“What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.”
“Fighting is very physical and extreme and you’re very vulnerable. It’s a very mental type of thing.”
“My mental state is perfectly fine.”
“Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.”
“The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.”
“I’ve had a lot of ‘aha’ moments, but the big ‘aha’ about growing older is the mental freedom.”
“It’s the boredom that kills you. You read until you’re tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you’re tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.”
“As far as my mental approach, I really think it’s just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.”
“Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.”
“I’m always going to have to manage my mental health issues.”
“What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.”
“I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.”
“The best players have the mental advantage throughout the league.”
“Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon.”
“I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.”
“You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.”
“As soon as you reach a certain age, you’re thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.”
“I haven’t really worked with, like, a mental coach or anything.”
“We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.”
“The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.”
“As a goalkeeper, you’ve got to have mental toughness, and that’s one thing I’m good at.”
“In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.”
“The gap between first-class and international is mostly on the mental aspect.”
“Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.”
“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.”
“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”
“In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.”
“I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.”
“Mental strength is something you either have or you haven’t.”
“It’s all mental. I just have to worry about my game.”
“Sex is biological, but gender is mental.”
“I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.”
“The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.”
“I go in and out of mental funks all the time ’cause it comes with the territory.”
“We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.”
“The mental side of sports, it’s huge. It’s such a massive part of the game.”
“The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn’t take any mental giant.”
“CrossFit really helped me with mental toughness, which I really appreciate. It also gave me this network of people cheering me on, which is incredible.”
“Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.”
“’Retirement’ is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.”
“If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.”
“I definitely have been working a lot on the mental side of my game.”
“I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.”
“Our mental state fuels our emotions, and our bodies reflect those emotions.”
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”
“If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.”
“People get really irritated by mental illness.”
“I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.”
“The pool is terrible, but that doesn’t have much to do with my record swims. That’s all mental attitude.”
“Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It’s serious.”
“Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.”
“Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.”
“I’ve always been an advocate for mental health.”
“Mental illness affects everyone.”
“Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution.”
“I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.”
“I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.”
“Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration… it’s mentally draining.”
“Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.”
“Obviously, I can’t break my mental block in the Octagon.”
“I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.”
“If I can’t get a mental image from the song, I won’t sing it.”
“It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.”
“The thing we don’t want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.”
“Our mental maps are distorted by who are the ‘winners’ of history and who are the powers of today.”
“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”
“No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.”
“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 think I have a mental nappy attitude.”
“’Taxi Driver’ wasn’t autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.”
“I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.”
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
“Once you graduate from the Under-19 level, no one really gives you technical advice. It is all about making mental adjustments.”
“I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.”
“Perhaps I’m absolutely bonkers and don’t know it. Perhaps I’m psychotically mental.”
“Pictures help you to form the mental mold.”
“A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.”
“For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.”
“I’m not worried about state parks. I’m worried about people who can’t be treated because they have schizophrenia or other mental illnesses out there. I’m worried about people.”
“If you’re running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.”
“Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.”
“Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they’re happy.”
“I think there’s a lot of mental instability in this whole country.”
“A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.”
“I don’t invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years – or ever.”
“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.”
“Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.”
“The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.”
“The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.”
“We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.”
“Obviously, I have to continue to get better with the mental part of the game.”
“I’m not really comfortable unless there’s some kind of risk – either physical or mental.”
“Every mental state is also physical.”
“Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.”
“My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.”
“I believe in my ability and my mental toughness.”
“I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of… our mental faculties.”
“On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.”
“Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.”
“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”
“There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don’t relive it, recreate it.”
“I’ve overcome physical and mental brutality – and fought back.”
“I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy – obviously!”
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.”
“Mental illness, of course, is not literally a ‘thing’ – or physical object – and hence it can ‘exist’ only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.”
“There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.”
“For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.”
“The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably – as it now appears to me – by those not exclusively dependent upon them.”
“Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.”
“Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.”
“Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.”
“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”
“Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.”
“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.”
“I think in football, most of it is just mental.”
“Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.”
“From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.”
“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.”
“Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.”
“Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.”
“I have a mental coach, which is super cool, but it’s also kind of eerie at times.”
“Football is a lot to do with mental state.”
“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”
“Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.”
“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.”
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