Mental Quotes

2442 Mental quotes by 1534 unique authors

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer. — John Steinbeck
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. — Robert M. Pirsig
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an… — Susan Sontag
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy. — Frank Zappa
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the… — Karl Abraham
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. — Jeannette Walls
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental… — Janet Frame
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've… — Rebecca De Mornay
Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train. — Ozzy Osbourne
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine. — Leonard Cohen
The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in… — Sri Aurobindo
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more… — Herbert Hoover
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… — Christian Lous Lange
I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the… — Diana Lopez
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not… — Sigmar Polke
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our… — Michael Polanyi
Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal. — Alexandra Roach
I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good… — Aly Raisman
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from… — Garth Stein
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… — Susan Sontag
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format… — Frederick Lenz
The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion. — Neville Goddard

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