I think I have become mentally stronger now, and I have full confidence that I can finish close matches.
In the future we’ll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don’t like it, we’ll just turn it off.
You don’t necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in ‘Photograph.’
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.
I’ve made a lot of progress. As a man, mentally, but also physically. And tactically, too. That’s a given with a manager like Antonio Conte. He likes you to work, work, work. Every day.
It was the most incredible feeling you can have winning the Kentucky Derby. You’re not really mentally prepared for it. It’s the greatest race in America, with 150,000 people, Churchill Downs, the Twin Spires, it’s just magical.
It’s in that moment – when millions of fans are holding their breath as the football hurtles towards me at 80 mph, and all I have is within 0.42 seconds to react – that I need to feel mentally and physically prepared.
I follow Ayurveda, but above everything, I believe in being healthy mentally, physically, and emotionally.
Even though I was still able to make some All-Star teams, mentally I was worn out. And once I wore out mentally, physically I started to wear down.
During the early stages of our married life, Pranathi did struggle to adjust for a few months. But she is a very strong woman mentally, stronger than me.
Yoga is excellent! It not only keeps me healthy physically but mentally and spiritually also.
A character like Baahubali required a preparation that I had to undergo mentally and physically – from undertaking a strict routine and a lifestyle, which helped me become the character physically, to knowing the character’s depth and a lot more.
I don’t really compartmentalize and put players in high school, college, or the pros. For everybody, it’s physically and mentally, where are you? How do you evolve? Where’s your game at?
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won’t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn’t have a good time.
There’s not just playing on a Saturday and you receiving your money at the end of the month. There’s so, so much more to football than what people see. My agent told me when I was 15, 16, ‘you can have all the ability in the world but if you’re not mentally strong enough football will swallow you up.’
It took me a month to get out of the mindset of O.J. But even now, still, I think it might have done something to my vocal chords. I went to see the doctor, and he was like, ‘I don’t see anything. You’re fine.’ But mentally, I might have broke a little bit.
The more mental strength you have, the better. If you look at some of the best players that we have seen over the years and that I have been playing with, mentally they are the best competitors as well, something I have worked hard on.
Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better.
If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you’re a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you’re mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.
During lockdown, it’s important to keep fit mentally as well as physically. Hence, I have taken to Yoga extensively.
It’s kind of epic to see four women really be physically and mentally strong, in themselves and in their lives. That’s what ‘Widows’ is.
In World Cup qualifying in 1997, I will never forget Tony Adams and Sol Campbell: two very strong lions physically and mentally. Italy too had and has formidable defenders, but I have a great memory of those two. It was a pleasure to fight against them.
Obviously, it was tough for me, coming from high school and being that guy who was always playing and then having to sit and wait my turn… Mentally, it was taxing.
If I’m dressed down, I’m sad. If I’m really done up, I feel happy and mentally well.
Universal background checks and closing existing loopholes can prevent prohibited purchasers, such as convicted felons, the dangerously mentally ill and domestic abusers from accessing guns.
Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.
Boxing is a hurt game if you can’t be at your best, can’t be 100 per cent mentally and physically switched on to performing, to win titles, defend titles, defend yourself in the correct fashion, then I don’t think you should fight.
I really hate drama. It’s draining; it’s mentally draining. It’s a waste of time.
People go through so much in life – financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don’t look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.
Some days you realise that everything is a burden, both physically and mentally. That it’s not about fun, but you have to deliver without a doubt. Even if you are injured.
Even when I’m writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I’m writing for.
Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song or a piece of music with a particular character or scene, it helps me get back into the head of that character.
When you’re mentally ill, sometimes you’re so self-involved that you forget how much you’re hurting all the people around you who love you so much, because you don’t understand that you’ve got to get help.
After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
It’s crazy that I look at 2019 as one of my best career years of my life. If you put it all into bullet points of all the things I did, you’d be like, ‘Wow that’s an amazing year,’ but mentally, I just feel the lowest I’ve ever felt.
I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years – and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.
Massages and swimming are feel-good activities which are both mentally and physically relaxing.
I don’t think I made it clear where I was mentally when I appeared on ‘X Factor.’ There was so much pressure and a lot of judging. But I wanted to take a chance on the show because I wanted to make something of myself. ‘X Factor’ seemed like the only way out.
On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life – from residents at a battered women’s shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees – and learn about their lives and struggles.
Michael Chandler’s performance in his UFC debut was great. His opponent was great, but it felt like he was mentally unprepared to face Michael Chandler. He crumbled to his pressure and movement early.
There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
It’s tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.
After a basketball game, you’re gonna be physically tired, but more mentally. Playoff time comes around, you have it all in your head.
With albums like ‘Rodeo,’ ‘Days Before Rodeo’ and ‘Owl Pharaoh,’ I was really tuned into wanting to get people to understand my conscious and who I was mentally and who I am mentally.
I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker… I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, ‘Yeah, actors.’ But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic – you have to go there mentally.
We’re going for the joke on ‘Children’s Hospital,’ and we’re going for the joke on ‘The League.’ It’s fun to go between shows, but you have to mentally remind yourself what show you’re on.
I probably have more female friends than any man I’ve ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they’re generally mentally tougher, and they’re better listeners, and they’re more capable of surviving things.
We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
