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Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.
A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
Ability gets you so far, but having bottle and staying strong when you're getting pounded, staying in a game, that's a mental quality.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
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.
Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.
If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
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.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.
I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.
Pregame, I eat pancakes for a meal. I always do mental visualization before the game to prepare myself. Postgame, I typically take ice baths.
We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.
Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.
I think it's becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It's a thing, but I don't think people really understand the value of it.
I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana.
We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.
Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.
I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
Building mental strength is about regulating your emotions, managing your thoughts, and behaving in a positive manner, despite your circumstances.
It's okay to talk about mental health issues. It's okay to admit that you have anxiety. It doesn't take away from your power. It's totally normal.
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.
Congress needs to give the VA every tool possible to meet the mental health challenges facing our veterans before they get to the point of danger.