Body Movement Quotes

• The body says what words cannot.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Photography, Get Well

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Voice, Silence, Meditation

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Health, Buddhism

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• The eyes, hands and body movements are important to make the dance sexier.

  Seungri

  Eye, Hands, Important

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Done, Movement

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.40, Rodale

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• Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

  Martha Graham

  Motivational, Dance, Song

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• And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Giving, Movement

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.87, A&C Black

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• I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Movement, Body

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.87, A&C Black

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• I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

  Brian Eno

  Dance, Player, Talking

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• I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.

  Roberto Orci

  Attitude, Ideas, Personality

  Source: collider.com

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• It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

  Hideo Kojima

  Nice, Movement, World

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• I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

  Jill Scott

  Expression, Class, People

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• I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

  Juliet Aubrey

  Italian, Thinking, Musical

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was "acting." And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence.

  Jim Cummings

  Years, Voice, California

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• Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

  Myron Uhlberg

  Beautiful, Expression, Hands

  Myron Uhlberg (2009). “Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love”, p.92, Bantam

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• There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.

  John Towner Williams

  Spiritual, Expression, Needs

  "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" CD liner notes,

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• The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Movie, Musical, Actors

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  Edward T. Hall

  Voice, Culture, Movement

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• The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mean, Warrior, Movement

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