Mental Skills Quotes

#1. If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

Philippa Perry

#2. The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit.

Keith Devlin

#3. Environment where students could develop their mental skills through hours of uninterrupted meditation. Gilbertus had chosen this inhospitable area with a specific purpose in mind. He believed the danger and isolation would help focus the

Brian Herbert

#4. The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. People with Asperger's or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily living skills and so on.

Laura James

#7. Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

James E. Loehr

#8. Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.

Tsukahara Bokuden

#9. The excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

Henry Fielding

#10. I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

Charles Garfield

#11. All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: 'The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they currently being lived.

Kiera Van Gelder

#12. Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Chris Evert

#13. It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

Bruce Lee

#14. Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Bobby Scott

#15. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks

Win Quier

#16. This was a mental game as much as a physical challenge, designed to reinforce the fact that staying focused and motivated is absolutely critical to mission success and basic survival in war.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#17. Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

David D. Burns

#18. Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us.
Our learning starts as soon as we are born.

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#19. You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

Guy Kawasaki

#20. Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

Rashad Evans