"I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem."
6
"I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind."
7
"The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change."
6
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united."
10
"The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry."
6
"A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity."
9
"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."
6
"The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love."
6
"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."
10
"As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry."
8
"The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion."
4
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
8
"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."
8
"The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself."
5
"I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry."
6
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
7
"Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind."
5
"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
7
"Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important."
8
"I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking."
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