Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
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.
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Playing Kunta Kinte is an emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental journey.
When you have two races in a row, it's really important to keep that mental energy stable.
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
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.
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.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
