Muscles Quotes - Page 34

• One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

  Dorian Yates

  Jobs, Bodybuilding, Stressed

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• Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.

  Dorian Yates

  Exercise, Years, Long

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• I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

  Dara Torres

  Maturity, Winning, Dedication

  Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.216, Three Rivers Press

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• There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Games, Mind

  "The American diamond: a documentary of the game of baseball".

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• I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.

  Thomas Eakins

  Way, Adopted

  "Eakins". Book by Sylvan Schendler, ch. 10, 1967.

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• Muscle is good, but craft is better

  Wace

  Crafts

  Wace, Eugene Mason (1996). “Arthurian Chronicles”, p.27, University of Toronto Press

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• When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

  Dan Gable

  Moving, Weight, Littles

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.

  Joseph Pilates

  Horse, Heart, Cat

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• When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

  Joseph Pilates

  Effort, Matter, Pleasure

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the ‘other’ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.

  Steve Paxton

  Dark, Self, Mind

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• Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn't mean you have to listen.

  Dianne Holum

  Mean, Focus, Protest

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

  Colin S. Smith

  Christian, Meat, New Life

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• The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

  Anthony Lane

  Errors, Light, Dresses

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• Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

  Joan Lunden

  Wisdom, Warrior, Giving

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• Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.

  Eamonn Coghlan

  Motivational, Running, Stress

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• At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

  David Mixner

  Moving, Mind, Body

  "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Use, Want, Way

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Opposites, Laughing

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• Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. ...If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.

  Natasha Friend

  Balance, Fats, Wells

  Natasha Friend (2012). “My Life in Black and White”, p.173, Penguin

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• Bushcraft is what you carry in your mind and your muscles.

  Ray Mears

  Mind

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• It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.

  Eric Ludy

  Running, Spiritual, Tired

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• Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Strength, Strong, Mean

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