Mental Barrier Quotes

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The only limit is the one you set yourself.

I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.

To be able to know that I can push myself a little further than you think you can was so important. And that it's a mental barrier more than anything. You can break through it.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

You cannot go higher than you think you can.

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: 'No way. I mean, how?' If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

I know people who have suffered writer's block, and I don't think I've ever had it. A friend of mine, for three years he couldn't write. And he said that he thought of stories and he knew the stories, could see the stories completely, but he could never find the door. Somehow that first sentence was never there. And without the door, he couldn't do the story. I've never experienced that. But it's a chilling thought.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line.

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.