Mental Work Quotes

Most of my work is in my mind.

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the mental work of releasing and forgiving, almost anything can be healed. The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by 'outer' methods and that we must go within to effect the healing. The condition came from nothing and will go back to nothing.

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.