Muscles Quotes - Page 5

• For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Life, Inspiring, Workout

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle

  Lee Haney

  Goal, Levels, Increase

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• When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.

  Nicole Eggert

  Hair, Work Out, Guy

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• The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

  Barbara Deming

  Men, Brotherhood, Being Free

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Athlete, Years

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• It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but it’s a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Sleep, Thinking, People

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• Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Action, Study, Nervous

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• Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

  Peter Brimelow

  Educational, Political, Salary

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• Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

  George Combe

  Mean, Thinking, Taught Us

  George Combe (2010). “Notes on the United States of North America During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-39-40”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.

  Judy Holliday

  Smile, Fear, Thinking

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• I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

  Christopher Parker

  Three, Weight, Four

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• He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

  Frances Wright

  Exercise, Men, Animal

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• The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

  Georges Duhamel

  Sea, Land, Horizon

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

  Laurel Clark

  Heart, Significant Change, Body

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• I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

  John L. Phillips

  Unique, Thinking, Data

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• I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

  Dick York

  Gestalt, Want, Able

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• Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

  Lisa Leslie

  Sports, Average, Weight

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• I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.

  Markus Ruhl

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Healthy

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• Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

  E. M. Forster

  Knowledge, Science, Long

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.299, Xist Publishing

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• The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Imagination, Atrophy, Ifs

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• The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Determination, Powerful, Heart

  Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

  Tyra Banks

  Work Out, Looks, Matter

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• To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

  Tryon Edwards

  Mean, Exercise, Use

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.518, Ravenio Books

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• But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

  Ron White

  Writing, Exercise, Exposure

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. October 24, 2006.

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• Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

  Ruth Gordon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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