But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
Golf is a mental disorder.
All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics. . . am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. . . This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.
This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.
Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.
I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure Im balancing time between my career and my personal life.
People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.
Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.