Contractions Quotes - Page 4

• Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Tasks, Action, Muscles

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2002). “The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion”, p.85, Frog Books

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• I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen. Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction. This particle I concluded to be the heart.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Heart, Body, Saws

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• The stock market crashed in October 1929. But that was not the cause of what caused the Great Depression. It was, in my opinion, a very minor element of it. What happened was that from 1929 to 1933 you had a major contraction which, in my opinion, was caused primarily by the failure of the Federal Reserve System, to follow the course of action for which it was set up. It was set up to prevent exactly what happened from 1929 to 1933. But instead of preventing it, they facilitated it.

  Milton Friedman

  Elements, October, Causes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

  Serge Haroche

  Technology, Discovery, Rockets

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• The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Acceptance, Personality, Liberty

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

  Zoroaster

  Worry, Anxiety, Soul

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• It's important that you do full movements for your triceps, because
  locking out is when your triceps work their hardest. Flex and squeeze at
  the contraction of each rep to hit all three triceps heads.

  Kevin Levrone

  Important, Three, Movement

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• One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was interesting. Many of you probably don't remember what happened after the South Sea Bubble, which caused an enormous financial contraction, and a lot of pain. They banned publicly traded stock in England for decades.

  Charlie Munger

  Pain, Sea, Interesting

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