Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it’s hard.
I am not a part of Bollywood. Nobody cares about me in Bollywood and I have mentally resigned from Bollywood long ago. I am an independent filmmaker.
There’s variables at every single gig. I look forward to those every night. We have a lot of things that happen in our show, a lot of people from the outside watching the show might think it’s one schtick after the next. We promised ourselves we have to be there mentally. We have to be aware. We are forced to be aware.
I was thrilled when this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature went to Neal Schusterman’s ‘Challenger Deep.’ This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it’s received.
Reality TV is hard. You put yourself out there and you have no control over which parts they show (and don’t show). And you are shooting sometimes 15 hour-days for months and months. It’s exhausting – physically and mentally.
In my own life, I find myself doing some task – driving or playing golf – and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don’t know if that means I’m mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that conversation, different images of my parents appear to me.
But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.
I don’t drink and I don’t party. And I take care of myself mentally, and that’s huge.
Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it’s a lot busier.
Sometimes when you’re constantly playing volleyball there is no time to decompress mentally and physically.
The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because it’s what you learnt, but I want to push myself.
It is important to feel the support of my family. Mentally, I can get away from everything that is football when I come home to be with them. Yes, work is a pleasure, but there will always be family.
I’ve been learning a lot in my years, it’s not just the fight itself, its a lot mentally fighting each other, that’s something I learned later days. I realize now it’s very important.
From the first day I got signed to WWE, being the champion was always my number one goal, and after years of consistent hard work both mentally and physically, ups and downs, I was finally in that moment I had dreamt and thought about so much!
For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I’m not mentally stable enough for that – I need to separate my two worlds.
I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic – but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.
I don’t know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I’m on my way, I don’t think I’m terribly attractive, but I’m comfortable with my looks.
I’m wary when legislators say the solution to school shootings is mental health care, because it suggests that people who are mentally ill are violent, and that’s just not true.
I’d had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I’d sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
To stay positive, you have to be very strong mentally.
I realize that although I’d like to make films as a career after I’m done playing, I really love basketball; I really love my career, an opportunity to compete every day and to push myself physically, mentally and emotionally.
I’m settled emotionally and mentally because of my partner, and a lot of my growth has happened post-marriage.
The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It’s more about finding yourself. It’s really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that ‘Huge’ was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.
Before you even consider making a value bet, try to determine if the bet will have any value at all. Attempt to put your opponent on a hand that he’d likely call a bet with on the river. To do this, you’ll have to mentally play back the details of the hand. Think about your opponent’s playing tendencies.
Ignoring the needs of your body, both physically and mentally, could be very harmful later on.
Everyone agrees that there are individuals who are seriously mentally ill and should not have guns.
Being injured for nine months, it felt like a breeze to me mentally – nothing was really too difficult.
Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that’s tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I’m not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.
When you play with the older people it helps you mentally, because they’re bigger and stronger than you. You have to live up to that.
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.
Having quiet time mentally is key in harnessing our intuition, and being awake when others are asleep allows for us to be with our thoughts.
If I’m fulfilled mentally, spiritually, and physically by my daily activities and I’m constantly striving to grow by living out of my comfort zone, then I am successful.
I am mentally strong, but physically I’m constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don’t talk about it and make myself sick with it.
I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.
Compared to our era, facilities in athletics have increased manifold. But contemporary athletes are not mentally tough. The new generation wants everything easily, but it is not possible in athletics.
When you play against older players, it’s always a challenge physically and mentally.
Mentally strong people don’t shy away from change – nor do they expect immediate results.
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.
If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
You never know when your chance will come. You have to be mentally prepared and be in best shape possible.
I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.
When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it’s like turning 50, I can’t wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.
Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.
Every time I do an interview, it’s like serious therapy. But real therapy isn’t something that I’d ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
I was just painfully shy. I couldn’t talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.
One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you’re mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.
I was interested in watching it; I wasn’t interested necessarily in performing. So I’m grateful to kind of find that passion myself, as an adult, because it was really mentally strenuous, and I don’t think I would have been mentally equipped for it, honestly.
It’s all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.
Doing something that’s physical but not necessarily mentally taxing – for me, it frees me up creatively.
Without risk you can’t experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.
Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger than it actually is.
