Exercise Quotes - Page 14

• Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leader, Essentials, Increase

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• In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

  Johann Arndt

  Christian, Men, Temptation

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• Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

  Edwin Hutchins

  Creating, Environment, Humans

  Edwin Hutchins (1995). “Cognition in the Wild”, p.169, MIT Press

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• I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

  Steve Martin

  Peer Pressure, Looks, Courses

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• How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sports, Reading

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• Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Writing, Color

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Inspirational, Things In Life, Comforting

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• Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Color, White, Racism

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• Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.

  Charles Bates

  Philosophy, Realization, Belief

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• Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Men, Air, Civilization

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.212, Jazzybee Verlag

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• America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

  Florence King

  Kings, Children, Kids

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.30, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy

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• We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Liberty, Levels, Dominance

  Margaret Thatcher (1988). “Britain and Europe: Text of the Prime Minister's Speech at Bruges on 20th September 1988”

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• I learned words, I learned words; but half of them
  died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use
  often look at me
  with a look that whispers, Liar.

  Norman MacCaig

  Liars, Looks, Use

  Norman MacCaig (2013). “The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig”, p.13, Birlinn

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• From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Understanding

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• The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Thinking, Finals, Belief

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Health, People, Understanding

  Chungliang Al Huang (2011). “Quantum Soup: Fortune Cookies in Crisis”, p.25, Singing Dragon

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• You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Healthy, Breaking Down

  "Work Like Obama: Management Secrets From The World’s Toughest Job" by Ryan Coonerty, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2017.

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• The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

  Norman O. Brown

  Health, Self, Order

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.

  Dixon Edward Hoste

  Trust, Wise, Christian

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• The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

  Marion G. Romney

  Love, Jesus, Strong

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• Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Limits, Constitution

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• Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

  John P. Kotter

  Views, Practice, Psychology

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