I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.
You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.
A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.
My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.
When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.
When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.
It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
