Quotes about "Mental Health & Wellbeing"

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. ”

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. ”

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand. ”

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. ”

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. ”

I wish I'd known that apologizing is a sign of strength. I had the impression that if you apologize, it's a sign of weakness. I kind of picked up the message from my father, 'Real men don't apologize. You just do your best, and if you happen to hurt some people, that's their fault. You just go on. Don't apologize. That's a sign of weakness.' ”

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument. ”

I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time. ”

I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about. ”

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. ”