#mental

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

#chances #conversations #habit #how #improvement

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#ever #feelings #job #loss #only

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

#become #fish #frighten #him #hooked

Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes. ↗

— SupaNova Slom

#attraction #couples #etiquette #etiquette-and-attitude #frequency

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#example #football #form #fundamentally #i

Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors. ↗

— Ernst Bloch

#christianity #fundementalism #marx #religion #age

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#after #any #apparent #consciousness #even

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#focused #go #hour #meditate #mentally

I do not recollect when I had such a mental treat. ↗

— Abigail Fillmore

#i #i do #mental #recollect #such

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. ↗

— John Ford

#anybody #art #direct #directing #eyes