Sedentary Quotes

• When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

  Twyla Tharp

  Brain, Alive, Body

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

  Andrew Weil

  Exercise, Epidemics, Play

  "10 Ways to Have a Happier Life" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Spirit, Life Is

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• For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

  Carl Sagan

  Song, Cities, Childhood

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

  Rose Kennedy

  Health, Expression, People

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• What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Attitude, Exercise

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• Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

  John Medina

  Exercise, Brain, Cubicles

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• Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

  George Santayana

  Cities, Mind, Renaissance

  George Santayana “The works of George Santayana”

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• All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Moving, Exercise, Science

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• Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reading, Men, People

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Believe, Exercise, Princeton University

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• When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  Robert Benchley

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

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• I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

  Lauren Bacall

  Active, Persons

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• As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Biology, Aggressive, Animal Kingdom

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• The open road still softly calls.

  Carl Sagan

  Stills, Open Road

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Travel, Sun, Elsewhere

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Book, Passion

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt

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• The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

  Carl Sagan

  Song, Childhood, Forgotten

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Life, Travel, Contentment

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• To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

  Andrew Weil

  Impact, Worry, Surfing

  "Fortunately, 'Corn Sugar' Has Become a Sticky PR Mess" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Mean, Civilization, Goal

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• If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

  Herbie Brennan

  Healing, Past, Doctors

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• The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

  Henry Williamson

  Frustration, Mind, Becoming

  Henry Williamson (1963). “The Power of the Dead”

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• I encourage people to pick up small habits like taking a walk after meals... we've become way too sedentary. Just move!

  Theo Rossi

  Moving, People, Meals

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