Mental Performance Quotes

#1. The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#2. the key to improved mental performance of almost any sort is the development of mental structures that make it possible to avoid the limitations of short-term memory and deal effectively with large amounts of information at once.

Anders Ericsson

#3. Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand

Lanny Bassham

#4. Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a "Mental Performance Ratio (MPR),

Kenneth L. Higbee

#5. The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance

Tim Ferriss

#6. Their earlier poor performance had had more to do with the way they were tested than with their mental powers. Elephants

Frans De Waal

#7. Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.

Robin S. Sharma

#8. The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.

Max Weber

#9. Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

Lorii Myers

#10. True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Oliver Sacks

#12. I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#13. We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

Mick Ralphs

#14. Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. Are we open-minded enough to assume that other species have a mental life? Are we creative enough to investigate it? Can we tease apart the roles of attention, motivation, and cognition? Those three are involved in everything animals do; hence poor performance can be explained by any one of them.

Frans De Waal

#16. [R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

Pascal Boyer

#17. A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Gary Neville

#18. Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

William Ralph Inge

#19. Statistically, athletes with solid family units have better stamina, more purpose, better mental health, and overall improved performance than athletes who are either divorced or unmarried.

Amy Harmon

#20. Only those who are able to adapt to changing scenarios will continue to survive and prosper. Success is directly proportional to the degree of positive adaptation to change.

Vishwas Chavan

#21. When you truly study top performers in any field, what sets them apart is not their physical skill; it is how they control their minds.

Tina Brown

#22. Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Henry James

#23. Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#24. God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

Joseph Joubert