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Out of passions grow opinions, mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Emma Goldman

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

Emmet Fox

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

William R. Alger

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

Oscar Levant

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

Loren Eiseley

Our base running was horrible and the mental mistakes is what is costing our team victories.

Bud Maret

We made a few mistakes, a few mental mistakes. We'll get those corrected and go from there. We want to be an exciting team to watch, and we'll get there.

Terry Piazza

We had a couple of mental lapses in the second half. We made a couple of decisions on bad passes. We made a couple of mistakes in the fourth quarter.

Peter Arnold

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus

This was a mental game for us. And we had the right mind-set.

Jason Dunn

FEMA mental health outreach works are utilizing our materials in their recovery outreach to that age group, too.

Peg Case

Coach said we were going to get back to the basics. We challenged each other to come out and have our best game, to have no mental errors. We got pretty close.

Rod Wright

His mental and emotional conditions at the time.

Jim Taricani

You can?t change the mental smear that happens once you go through one of these things. I don?t believe it can ever be remedied.

Robert Krueger

It's more of a mental thing. The more I do it, the easier it gets.

John Tait

Errors cost us the game today. It wasn't just the fielding, but the mental mistakes we made that took this game from us.

Ann Molski

We didn't know that he had bi-polar but it's true of anyone with mental health issues that when they're being managed, they do not talk about it. So it caught all of us by surprise. But when we look back on it, his behavior did change. It became erratic.

Joe Kelly

We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.

Gary Apodaca

We're also still walking around with the same mental demons. A 4-foot putt to win will never get any less petrifying.

David Feherty

I can see how mental kicking is now. A lot of schools and the pros don't want to put money on a kicker until they see him. It's someone they don't know yet.

Chris Cook

It's mental, getting used to the tempo. It keeps getting faster. I just try to keep up.

Dio Dante

It was just as tough as last year. We just did a better job of limiting our mental errors. We had a couple late in the game last year, and all week we made a conscious effort to follow the game plan.

Steve Leven

Above all of this, I have the mental thing going on in my head that my spouse is endangering his life and that he may not come home to us.

Sherri Fassbender

Conditioning is a big thing. We have this tendency to play 30 minutes of a 36 minute game. ... Half of it is conditioning, but then half of it is just the mental intensity to play the entire game.

Dane Moody

I feel that Lafayette has had a great mental depression the last couple of months due to the hurricane. We cannot change the past ... so we have to look to the future.

Rob Stevenson

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

Bruce Bowen

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.

Ambrose Bierce

It's a great combination of mental and physical challenges.

John Ide

I've wrestled since I was 6 years old. I've gone through some of the most excruciating wrestling camps, where they say, 'We're going to kill you.' I made it through all of them. When it comes right down to it, it's all mental.

Mike Whitehead

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Fran Lebowitz

They played with a lot of mental toughness and awareness. They played through some pain and never gave up ... I was proud of them.

John Devries

The mental stress shouldn't be underplayed. When you're out there doing the work, you can't help but feel the pressure.

Leroy Chiao

I think it's a mental thing. Robert Morris was not a threat to us. We should have been a lot better than that in the first game.

Rhesa Sumrell

Physically, we have the ability to beat any team, but we have a lot of work to do with the mental aspect of the game.

Kevin Bullis

I certainly think our kids are think good things are going to happen when they go out on the field every game. If there is a (mental) advantage, I'm glad we have it.

George Quarles

It's important. We're going to have to win the one-run games in our district. If we can improve on mental errors, we'll be all right.

Matt Mccool

I got emotional help and support from my wife and friends. But the physical help had to come from a doctor - from a mental health professional.

Gil Kleiman

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Ernest Dimnet

That's why coaches tell players to never give up. Little mental mistakes like that is how you score.

Chris Leshinski

The brace is fine. It keeps my leg straight and stuff. It just gives me the confidence. It is like a mental thing.

Michel Leveille

The mental mistakes I can't live with. You can't win when you do that. I don't think this team has a leader.

Skeeter Barnes

If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, then admiring a celebrity can have a positive influence on your ambition, or even your mental health.

Abby Aronowitz

(Tuesday was) another gorgeous day on the course, but the physical effort had no help from the mental or emotional sides.

David Weaver

It's not just families; they'll be people with chronic mental health, truly the neediest people.

Maggie Brooks

We need to look at what we're doing hitting wise, we're not getting done. At this point, it is mental. We need to figure out how to hit the ball again.

Steve Strayer

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

Darlene Mcintosh

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Fillmore

We haven't seen the win column in a while. I was disappointed with our mental approach for this game. We were a little lackadaisical today.

Ronnie Elmore

It's all mental. You just have to keep focus and just concentrate on getting that ball not only in, but how can you make it difficult for the other team.

Britney Brown

We're going to hear from the defense about her background, her mental health, whether she's ever had sex before.

Wendy Murphy

It keeps your mind active. Puzzles are good for your mental health and for fighting Alzheimer's.

Nancy Frazier

Many of these children are going to have profound handicaps throughout their lives -- both physical and mental handicaps.

Larry Gostin

My plan was just to run past him. My hand just got caught into his and I fouled him. ... It was just a dumb foul. Just a mental mistake.

Justin Dentmon

We were mental midgets. We didn't step up.

Alexis Hornbuckle

He's cool. He knows how everyone pitches. It's just the mental approach that differs. It helps that he has a track record. It helps that he has a resume. A long resume.

Latroy Hawkins

After that first batter hit a home run, she had the mental toughness to bear down. She did what she had to do to win.

Judy Westgate

Mental illness is an equal-opportunity illness. Every one of us is impacted by mental illness. One in five adults are dealing with this illness, and many are not seeking help because the stigma prevents that.

Margaret Larson

Pam's comment to me was that she was sleeping with one eye open because she feared him. ... This was not the first time in the history of Jeff's mental illness that Pam feared him.

Renee Deberg

There is a mental edge that comes with the injections, and it's definitely something that gets you more intense.

Ken Caminiti

It was just a little mental lapse. It took our pitcher a little while to get going, and I hate to see him lose one like that.

Jeremy Mabry

Mental health that's disaster-related is very different from traditional mental-health services.

Robin Gurwitch

Emotional, psychological, mental, you are abusing our children by doing this the way you're doing it.

Jorge Merida

It's hard to believe, but we're getting better. We're getting more settled, we're getting better chemistry. But we do have some mental breakdowns that seem to hurt us.

Tim Abney

It's more mental than anything else. It is more than just the art of shooting.

Jacky Gaddis

They're a good team. We knew that. I'm just proud of the way our kids handled the mental adversity that goes with the delay.

Larry Kruse

To accomplish more, redirect your mental energy by continuously reminding yourself of all the things you do right.

Brian Koslow

This case is about a killing, for no reason whatsoever, at the hands of a man with a mental disease that took away his ability to know what he did was wrong.

Thomas Bergstrom

Every time we came back and got a goal, we had mental breakdowns.

Chris Thorburn

The hope is we won't have as high rates of mental-health consequences as we've seen in prior wars.

Col. Charles Hoge

I don't think he knew what he was doing. If you're having a mental breakdown and you need answers quickly, you go to church.

Chelsea Cannon

Sandy did a great job pitching, but defensive-wise, we had too many mental mistakes and errors.

Jennifer Reyes

It is for my mental discipline. It keeps me going.

Walter W. Wada

Mental health is a sickness just like diabetes, heart problems, eye problems, we all need help.

Bettie Jordan

We didn't play too well mentally. We had some mental breakdowns, we missed some lay-ups and we missed free throws early.

Jake Palluzzi

I feel more comfortable with Coach Applewhite because he's been in the same situation, ... I just try to prepare like I'm the starter. It's the same mental preparation.

Joe Fields

Good vocal leadership and he plays different positions. He has good mental toughness.

Morris Hodges

I realistically think we can win it all this year. But our mental approach has to be better.

Rich Sadvar

It would give residents in crisis a place to go. And it would take pressure off the crisis unit at the Charlotte County Mental Health Center.

Kevin Lewis

We were just so inconsistent, and inconsistency is a mental thing. It's the approach that you take to doing what you do, and we had a very half-hearted approach. At times it was good, but we didn't sustain it very long.

Willis Wilson

You play football with kids, not Xs and Os, so we're going to concentrate on them. We'll focus on mental attitude a little bit, and we'll try to bounce back from it.

Rief Gilg

Although I'm pleased to learn that Maine is at the top of its class when it comes to our mental health system, I realize that we have a ways to go.

Brenda Harvey

I think it was more mental. Just realizing she wasn't going to be there. You just had to change a little - go a little harder, cut a little harder.

Quinnetta Claytor

Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

Karl Menninger, Dr.

In my mind, its about 25 percent physical fitness, 25 percent mental grit and 50 percent just staying healthy in the altitude. The altitude is the biggest concern.

Troy Mcmahan

It's important to get an update on the current physical and mental health status.

Dr. Lorna Thorpe

Today, a lot of couples fell. I think it's mental problems.

Tatiana Navka

He makes some poor decisions. When you're trying to be a starter after being a backup, you just can't make mental mistakes. You make decisions that put you in a bind.

Sean Salisbury

On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems.

Gilbert Herdt

I gave my best physically but I have to keep some of my mental power for the Olympics.

Michael Walchhofer

It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know one mistake is not going to beat you.

Denise Ainsworth

The findings have important implications for estimating the level of mental health services that may be needed.

Col. Charles Hoge

It's a long race, and there is a lot of time left. The equipment and their mental attitude are very important, and if I know Sarah and Emily, I'd put my money on them.

Terry Kohl

Just recently, within the last couple of days, (I was) advised by appointed experts that there's a mental retardation issue. And by law, we have to explore it. We have no choice.

Joel Perez

I was pretty confident because I'd wrestled him before, and beat him, so I had the mental edge.

Chris Harvey

Things are much, much better, but it caused physical and mental anguish, and it caused stress on our marriage. I am very bitter. I don't believe there's enough justification for what they did. Greed is a horrible, horrible thing.

Darlene Roberts

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

We're very excited about it, ... We hope to use the pulpit in the future in balancing spiritual, mental and physical health for an overall healthy Christian life.

Joe Williams

We made some mental mistakes and that opened the door for them. We hit the ball very well. But we had the bases loaded with one out in the fourth and could not score a run.

Steve Perkins

We always come out against Washington with a mental block anyway.

Stephen Decatur

I am disappointed in how we played. I really think it's a mental block. We were so keyed up, we had a letdown.

Jodie King

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Bo Bennett

He told her the defendant needs attention from a mental health professional. He said she needs to take her medication.

Robert Clifford

I don?t know if it was a mental lapse. It?s just that they came out hard. We expected it, but we still let it happen. Give them credit.

Sean Collins

Once again, we're just making too many mental errors. We were in the game, then we started making turnovers and you can't do that against a team like Corpus.

Deann Craft

The pitching is there, the defense is there, we've just got to find a way to score more runs. Our mental approach is lacking.

Jon Bolin

I told them in between games, this isn't all about skill now. It's mental. That third game was the key today.

Charlie Miller

More of it's the mental approach, because the mental approach dictates your mechanics.

Leo Mazzone

The reality is, this is a mental health case. It could've been avoided.

Chris Flood

I Just remember Art before he had all the mental problems and remember the good dad he was.

Natalie Henderson

Now we're back to work. The challenge is more mental than anything else.

Ilian Evtimov

Execution was the problem. We had a good game plan. We made adjustments. We just didn't execute. We had way too many mental errors and they turned into critical errors.

Jason Simpson

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Georgia Witkin

Our guys maintained mental focus and made sure every swing was important.

Mike Fleck

We addressed our errors and fixed them at the half. A lot of them were mental. We had high balls and all that stuff.

Linda Cross

What happened last year is State made great plays and we made a lot of mental errors and helped them make great plays. We can't help them. We know they are going to make plays, we just can't aid them in the process.

Will Montgomery

Lee was under a great deal of physical and mental distress at the time.

James Filkins

We replicate experiences that a lot of people have when they have mental illnesses.

Harriet Comfort

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold S. Geneen

You can see the difference. His mental game as a quarterback is at a different level now - that's easy to see. He's our leader. He's doing the things to make himself better. As an individual, he's the dude we know we can count on.

Jason Snelling

I don't look at it as a mental hurdle because our players weren't here three years or four years ago. They don't carry the history of that around, and I don't either. We've had some good things happen here and we haven't yet won a tournament, so we know we have more to accomplish.

Andrew Coston

Everybody knows I've been struggling lately. It's more mental than anything, but this was a game I felt I needed to bounce back. I just brought intensity and fire and emotion.

Ollie Bailey

We got a little tired and made mental mistakes like throwing the ball away and not boxing out.

Kerri Scroope

He hates mental mistakes. Errors, you're going to make those mistakes every day. But the fact that you make a mental one was really bad to him. In 10 years, I've never seen him that mad.

Luis Sojo

It's the end [of] the season, every game is important and so our mental focus was up.

Luis Nicolao

This group of kids have a strong mental game. With our bats as hot as they are right now, there wasn't any doubt that we could bounce back when they tied the game.

Mark Dowlen

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

William Macneile Dixon

What people don't understand is that mental illness affects one out of five families in America. It's kind of the hidden illness. It's a silent killer.

Bernie Block

Our guys have got to understand that the better the team is you are playing, the more mental breakdowns is what they feed off of.

Steve Mcclain

We're a big mental health Band-Aid.

Bill Cook

I think that the recovery is mostly mental, not physical.

Cody Weik

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Brian Pearson

It hurts us a lot. Penalties, mental errors like that, those things kill drives.

Todd Blythe

Along with the physical, the mental aspect of the game is very important and we are handling that part of the game very well.

James Forni

We started off great. It's a long season for a freshman. We are just getting worn down. From here on out, it's got to be all heart and working on that mental aspect of the game.

Ty Zabel

Charity is arguably our most improved player and Bianca has shown mental toughness all season.

Steve Borden

The mental part should be fine, as soon as we get some little things taken care of. His timing is not right.

Rafael Chaves

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Sam Snead

The more you play top-10 players, the more you get used to just being out there, getting used to the atmosphere. The mental attitude has a lot to do with it, and that's what has improved with me.

Jill Craybas

Everything. I love the mental challenge. The competition. The environment. There is something so relaxing about it.

Jordan Cox

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

A lot of it is mental for him. He's not used to being physical. He stepped it up tonight.

Warren Beaulah

We've just been unlucky. We've been taking shots that will eventually fall. It's a mental thing.

Chris Yoder

Too many mental and physical breakdowns. We're not a very good football team right now. We think we are.

Pete Noble

Winning a league game is always important. We?ve tried to instill in the girls a mental focus for every game. Kennett was aggressive in the first half and we took control in the second half. This was a gutsy win.

Paul Costa

His passing and defense have gotten better. He's made a lot of improvements physically and he's making mental improvements as well. He needs to be a little bit more confident of his place on the team.

Fred Chao

We just have some information that perhaps she had some mental problems. She had been acting somewhat strangely. Some of her behavior was somewhat bizarre.

Sgt. Judy Phillips

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

B. C. Forbes

Some guys like to start it out, and they get out of the blocks well. But from a mental standpoint, if I'm coming off the bench, I like to sit down and see what's going on. I can clear up some things when I get out there or try not to do the exact things that someone else has been messing up on.

Tony Battie

One of the largest mental health care providers in the nation is Los Angeles County jail system.

David Doolen

One or two mental mistakes is the difference in the game.

Colin Kiley

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

She had a great game. (She) had some looks because we had a few mental breakdowns, but you've still got to hit the shot.

Tim Abney

I don't think it was about overlooking this team; I just think we have some things we've got to continue to get better at. Our mental capacity at the onset of the game, I'm concerned about.

Joyce Walker

We've had all kinds of people, from age 21 to 70. As long as they are in good physical and mental condition, they are eligible. But we look for pre-existing relationships. That's the key.

Bertram Van Munster

I'm of the belief that if you're not getting it done, at some point, I can't leave the same girls on the floor. We're going to have to change our mental approach, and we'll be changing the lineup a bit.

Nancy Todd

I don't think there is any advantage. Up until last year, I think we had a mental edge. But since they beat us last year, they got over the hump and now they know they can play with us.

Frank Lombardo

I've been in there taking mental reps. I've been going through walkthroughs, so I'm right there.

Travis Henry

We made some mental mistakes.

Brian Dozier

It was back and forth, [but] we dominated the overtime. It was just a result of the mental and physical fitness of the team.

Brendan Eitz

The mental part of the game is crucial. We're doing just enough to win. But to play against elite teams, you need to play with some intensity.

Tu'u Seva'aetasi

We should have been hitting all night, like the way we did in the fifth inning. We've got to focus more on the mental aspects of the game.

Alan Edmondson

Those coming back from Iraq do have a greater need for mental health services. And we're pretty sure that's due to higher frequency and intensity of combat experiences in Iraq.

Col. Charles Hoge

He matured even from the beginning of the year. As the season went on, his mental game got better.

Tom Hobbins

It's great to see seniors and freshmen and everybody else in between playing well. Our players are building mental toughness.

Tom Crean

If you want to go through everybody - Don Carter, Weber, Hardwick - Billy was the guy. His mental toughness and determination made him unique.

Dave Soutar

He thought that the court had done the right thing, and he wants only mental health care for Andrea.

George Parnham

She's been working on removing mental errors from her rounds. She's getting better at it.

Ann Curtis

I would call the scope of this disaster, the scale of mental health problems, unprecedented.

Charles Curie

If anything, the reason why they scored that goal was a mental lapse. I feel like the girls, there were some bad calls and they just mentally were out of it for a few moments, and that's when they scored the goal.

Amber Smith

That term came from the federal government. You're never going to end homelessness, or end people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse, but you can do it better than we're doing it now.

Cliff Smith

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

Ransom Antoine

There was no family fight just before, no mental illness. There was no apparent reason for him to take his life.

Mike Cook

By and large, detention facilities are built to protect the public and not to treat mental health and related family issues.

Stephen Gavazzi

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Lin Yutang

We had a lot of penalties and mental errors and we had to fight through that and the field conditions.

Jeff Whittaker

We didn't get back on 'D' like we should have. Some of it was mental, guys missing shots and they don't run back.

Bruce Weber

There was a big difference in her mental attitude. You could just she was a lot more confident after that win.

Pope John

We need to have the same kind of immediate response to mental health issues.

Katie Jones

It's not about basketball, it's about concentration and mental things. We're killing ourselves in areas, and we're going to have to fix that.

Katie Douglas

From the mental aspect, it's going to help the team morale a lot. You come out off the bat down, 24-0, and it wears the mental edge of the kids down a lot.

Larry Jackson

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

Theodore Dreiser

This is a great time for the bye week. It will be good for people's bodies to heal and to get a little mental refreshment.

Brad Hopkins

It was a dumb foul. I thought I got him after the buzzer, but the camera showed I didn't. It was a mental mistake.

Justin Dentmon

Mental toughness is crucial at the higher level at which they are going to be playing and there is no room for complacency.

Gus Logie

There's just something mental about going out for that second practice - especially in the afternoon. You know you're going to go out in pads and it's going to be a little longer than this morning.

Brad Hoover

When you're first learning a skill, the brain determines what muscles are needed and when. Through practicing the skill, a mental 'blueprint' is created.

Aynsley M. Smith

I do not believe that any mental illness exists other than demons, and no medication can straighten it out, other than the power of God.

Doyle Davidson

My thing is trying to convince them they can win, ... Anything that happens that's good, they think, 'Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in?' You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

Dick Butkus

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

Yogi Berra

It's not a mental thing. It's just execution. We don't execute when we get down there like we need to. That is something we need to work on.

Ashley Lelie

It's OK to talk about mental illness. No one should be embarrassed about it.

Nioka Campbell

It's the event that's the most precarious and you really have to have the mental focus and it's confidence and it's experience. That's what the season is for and I see it improving every meet and that makes a coach feel good.

Frank Kudlac

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Bill Russell