Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It’s frightening to talk about it. The people suffering don’t want sympathy.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
I think it’s really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.
The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.
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.
Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It’s a script error.
On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed the idea that each of us has a number of relatively independent mental faculties, which can be termed our ‘multiple intelligences.’
We will not give up the fight to ensure that mental health is the given the priority it needs and deserves.
I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what’s going on all the time.
America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
The pool is terrible, but that doesn’t have much to do with my record swims. That’s all mental attitude.
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that’s just the way their life is; it’s not like you see it in the movies.
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I’m not giving up.
I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that’s just the biggest issue.
Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It’s a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far.
I think that when people see that a successful person who has suffered and is a survivor of mental illness, and is still very successful, I think it gives them a lot of strength.
I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I’ve worked hard on myself.
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.
Being fit involves working on all aspects – your body, what you eat, and how you think. A sculpted body is not of much use if you’re not there mentally. And similarly, if you’re not eating well, it will affect your physical and mental set-up. After all, a six-pack might look good, but that’s pretty much it!
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don’t see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.
I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
You have to be very careful about your mental health.
A lot of things I’ve done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.
Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.
If I’m on form and I’m not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That’s why I’ve done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
You obviously don’t really forget how to play the old songs; you just don’t have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you’ve already written and chords you’ve already played.
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.
The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children – children with mental retardation – can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.
I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises – something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it’s just going faster than it should.
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
I won’t say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It’s always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.
You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.
If you’re running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.
I’m so bad at dancing that I’ve actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That’s how bad my dancing is.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.
Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.
Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing anything isn’t something I’ve been too big on since I was young.
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn’t walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act – we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can’t find what we’re looking for.
