Mental Gymnastics Quotes

#1. There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

David W. Earle

#2. In the real, grown-up world, unicorns were more plentiful than Prince Charmings.

Loretta Chase

#3. It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.

Sid Waddell

#4. Once upon a fuck, you people,

Seanan McGuire

#5. Is this little tale about rescuing Anya your way of telling me we could be in for trouble when we head back?"
"I'm sure you can handle some trouble," said Izrayl suggestively.
"I can handle a lot of trouble," Katya's mouth twisted into a provocative grin. "And I can certainly handle you.

Amy Kuivalainen

#6. I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don't have a good breakfast!

Maisie Williams

#7. Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

Camille Paglia

#8. Do we know ourselves - our "self"? How are we supposed to be ourselves if we are not our selves? And how can we be our selves without knowing who we are, such that we are certain of being the ones we are?

Martin Heidegger

#9. You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

Vernon Howard

#10. For hours, they wrote back and forth, a conversation punctuated by short periods of waiting, where Lucy held her breath and kept watch over her phone, resenting the constraints of technology, the limits of distance.

Jennifer E. Smith

#11. You're in the Courtyard.
Whatever rules humans have for employers aren't my rules unless I say they're my rules.
So I can hire you even though you don't have any idea what you're doing, and I can fire you for having stinky hair!

Anne Bishop

#12. [on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#13. Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

Dean Koontz

#14. Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Scott Stossel

#16. Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.

Carla H. Krueger