Exercise Quotes - Page 32

• The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

  George Sand

  Brain, Tools, Constant

  George Sand (1991). “Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand”, p.595, SUNY Press

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• All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

  George Sand

  Wise, Men, Advice

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• ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

  Glenda Jackson

  Ability, Atrophy

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• Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Play, Imagination

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.39, Zondervan

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• [On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

  Jessica Mitford

  Simple, Appreciate, Elocution

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• No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Excuse You, Tolerance, Emergencies

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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• Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.

  Jane Goodall

  Self, Giving, Intuition

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• A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Fitness, Dog, Machines

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• Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

  Storm Jameson

  Lust, Showing Up, Affair

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• A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

  Lord David Cecil

  Contemplative Life, Appearance, Contemplation

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• Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

  Ellen Terry

  Art, Simple, Thinking

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

  Margaret Halsey

  Boys, Thinking, Should Have

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Mother, Art, Believe

  William Stanley Jevons's reflections on his earlier life, written when he was 27 (December 1862); later published in "Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons" edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife (p. 11), 1886.

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• There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

  Paula Abdul

  Size, Meals, Three

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• A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

  George Combe

  Sleep, Night, Intellectual

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• The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

  John Abercrombie

  Character, Imagination, Sound

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• Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.

  Rolf Potts

  Spiritual, Interesting, Surroundings

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.145, Ballantine Books

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• The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Father, Military

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• most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those in authority must know what they are doing, and must be describing our condition to us as it really is; they still take it for granted that somehow what is, what is done, must make sense, can't really be insane. These assumptions exercise a tyranny over their minds.

  Barbara Deming

  Mind, Insane, Done

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• The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

  R. C. Sproul

  Passion, Weekend, Heaven

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• Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

  Simon Sinek

  Everyday, Littles, Little Things

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• People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

  Sue Grafton

  Country, Passion, California

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.92, Macmillan

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• my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

  J. A. Jance

  Fitness, Jumping, Form

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• When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kings, Queens, Work Out

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• Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?

  Amy Sedaris

  Silly, Book, Writing

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