Mental Quotes

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

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.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

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.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

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.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.