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

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Susan Faludi

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
Avicenna

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

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Robert Smithson

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.
Alex Cox

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
Steven Biko

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
Phyllis Schlafly

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell

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.
Samuel Alexander

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
Wole Soyinka

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
Edward Walker

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Swami Sivananda

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
Bill Russell

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo