Muscles Quotes - Page 16

• Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

  August Krogh

  Oxygen, Use, Rate

  August Krogh (1959). “The anatomy and physiology of capillaries”

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• Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you.

  Joe Navarro

  Powerful, Exercise, Stronger

  Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins (2009). “What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

  Chris Powell

  Iron, Want, Way

  "Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". "Good Morning America", abcnews.go.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

  Gloria Steinem

  Rebel, Female, Doe

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Brain, Age, Machines

  "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.

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• The silence is death.
  It comes each day with its shock
  to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
  and peck at the black eyes
  and the vibrating red muscle
  of my mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, White, Bird

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Two, Doors

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

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• Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.

  Chris Kluwe

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.

  Daniel Coyle

  Heart, Energy, Tasks

  Daniel Coyle, Tyler Hamilton (2012). “The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs”, p.19, Random House

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• We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Mind, Age, Use

  "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

  William D. Hoard

  Heart, Brain, Fool

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• I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

  Roddy Piper

  Creating, Going Away, Acting

  "PR: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper Makes Animation Debut in 'Green Lantern: Emerald Knights'"". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.379

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• We all start out equal, little blobs of blood and muscle. It’s a set-up of awesome potential.

  Daniel Lugo

  Blood, Littles, Equal

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• Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

  Roy Baumeister

  Willpower

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• Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

  Lucy Liu

  Years, Body, Pilates

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• Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Would Be

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Fear, Passion, Order

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• Be sure to use different exercises with every workout. Always confuse the muscles in to new growth.

  Shawn Ray

  Workout, Exercise, Growth

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• There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.246, Рипол Классик

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• When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
  girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

  Jennie Finch

  Beautiful, Girl, Softball

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• Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

  Ana Monnar

  Powerful, Mind

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• Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
  Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
  It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

  Jack LaLanne

  Lying, Gains, Pounds

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• There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

  David Oyelowo

  Strong, Quality, Actors

  Source: variety.com

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• As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

  Chael Sonnen

  Mean, Hard Work, Sick

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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