Muscles Quotes - Page 36

• True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Flexibility

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

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• Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

  Richard Serra

  Eye, Shapes, Draws

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• Changing the world is like trying to straighten a dog's tail. However much you may try, you won't succeed. But although the tail won't straighten, if you keep trying every day, at least you will put on some muscle. Similarly, even though it is difficult to make a change, our effort to do so in itself brings positive results. It will help us change. Without waiting for others to change,if we change ourselves first, that will make a difference. Instead of worrying about results, focus on doing our best in what we are engaged in.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Dog, Differences, Worry

  "Patience leads to Love". Conversation with Riitta Uosukainen, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, October 06, 2000.

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• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

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• The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

  Anna Kamienska

  Air, Light, Effort

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• Failure builds muscle,
  determination, and dreams.

  Michael Jordan

  Dream, Determination

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• That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything.

  Artie Shaw

  Sex, Keys, Trying

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• In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Two, Mistress

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

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• After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

  Denise Van Outen

  Wedding, Strong, Shopping

  "Denise Van Outen: 'I was bullied for not breastfeeding'". www.mirror.co.uk. October 10, 2010.

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• Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Faces, Stranger, Streets

  Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

  Pen Densham

  Writing, Voice, Training

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• Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities.

  Amit Ray

  Reality, Understanding, Feelings

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• Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far more than the amount of time you spend working out. This is why a series of 40-yard sprints at full speed benefits you more than half an hour of jogging. It's also the reason why lifting a weight heavy enough to make your heart pound and your muscles burn counts more than spending hours at the gym always in your comfort zone, never truly challenging your body. When a work-out becomes an unvarying, monotonous routine, it loses its effectiveness.

  Arthur De Vany

  Workout, Heart, Effectiveness

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• Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

  Dan Millman

  Sports, Art, Shining

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.165, New World Library

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• If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Curiosity, Knowledge Is Power, Ifs

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• The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Learning, Brain

  Stephen King (2016). “Firestarter”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• From breathing techniques, muscle toning to overall flexibility and relaxation, my Pilates sessions have become something of a weekly necessity that keeps me fit, happy and energized.

  Pippa Middleton

  Breathing, Relaxation, Technique

  "Pippa Middleton: Pilates Is A Weekly Necessity" By Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

  Maya Angelou

  Spiritual, Would Be, Bags

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• When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.

  Fred Rogers

  Strong, Real, Helping Others

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Strong, Exercise, Giving

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.

  Dorian Yates

  Workout, Simple, Sugar

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• Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

  Henri Desgrange

  Cycling, Triumph, Artifice

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• It's wrong to believe that you need a certain physical body type to run. All body types can run. It's not about your legs, muscles, or cellulite. It's not about the physical side of things. If you train your brain, your body will follow. It's that simple. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Simple

  Amby Burfoot (2005). “Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running”, p.47, Rodale

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• Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Writing, Blood

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Action, Reflexes

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

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