Atrophy Quotes

• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Technology, Men, Buttons

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Answers, Remember, Persons

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• So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Long, People

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• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Yield, Giving, Accepting

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

  John Adams

  Art, Roots, Track

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• Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

  Ezra Pound

  Dance, Literature

  ABC of Reading (1934) "Warning"

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• It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Imagination, Bitterness, Would Be

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

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• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Men, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Trying Something New, New Day

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• Life yields only to the conqueror.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Yield, Muscles

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Self, Possession

  E. Stanley Jones (1984). “The way: 364 adventures in daily living”

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• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days.

  Salma Hayek

  Moving, Thinking, Sick

  "Salma Hayek Talks Acne, Depression, & Botox" by Kacy Ray, www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fear, Stress, Exercise

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• I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Brain, Religion, Damage

  "Your Religious Upbringing Doesn't Make Your Religion True or False" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. December 6, 2015.

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• It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

  Stewart Udall

  Men, Quality, Population

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid.  Awareness atrophies.  Dumb gets dumber.  Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other.  We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences.  These lists are meaningless.

  Roger Cohen

  Stupid, Eight, Dumb

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• Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Intellectual

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.163, Bantam

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• Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

  John Lahr

  Spiritual, White, America

  "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Business, Men, Blood

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• atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Criminals, Crime

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• I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Long

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• Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Action, Muscles, Ability

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• The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.

  Katherine Paterson

  Hate, Book, Reading

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

  Lisa Alther

  Emotional, Energy, Collapse

  Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

  Ishmael Reed

  Fall, Race, Ideas

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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