Muscles Quotes - Page 37

• Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Powerful, Meditation, Calm

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• You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.

  Maya Angelou

  Littles, Courageous, Little Things

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• Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Imagination, Happy Day

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.58, Bantam

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• You have to be able to focus, to control your energy. You need to make it your ally, instead of trying to harness it, to muscle it. That wastes energy too. There has to be a harmony between you and your body. Your mind and your body, and your soul have to connect in order to move forward. And this comes through relaxation.

  Elvis Stojko

  Moving Forward, Order, Focus

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• Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than-comf ortable most of the time. You can thank the muscle magazines for these persistent misconceptions, along with the natural tendency of all normal humans to seek reasons to avoid hard physical exertion.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, People, Looks

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• Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

  Jason Silva

  Understanding, Intellectual, Brain

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• Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

  Catherine DeVrye

  Wisdom, Use, Belief

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• My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won't know what hit them.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Moving, Littles, Pumps

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger's tips for working out on the road" By Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

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• Exercise the writing muscle every day.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Exercise, Writing Notes

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• The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

  Marshall Sylver

  Mind

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• It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?

  B. J. Palmer

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• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  Karlie Kloss

  Stories, Movement, Faces

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• Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.

  Michael Klaper

  Animal, Elephants, Pounds

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• Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Writing, Heart, Exercise

  Dinty W. Moore (2012). “The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

  Tom Hardy

  Hollywood, Tossers, Bones

  "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Moving, Rocks, Brain

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2010

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• The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliché villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

  Christoph Waltz

  Smart, Mean, Interesting

  "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

  Jaden Smith

  Want, Way, Shock

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.

  Nina Dobrev

  Running, Air, Solo

  "Nina Dobrev's Secrets to Getting Sexy" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Needs, Way, Theater

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• Choose some sport or other vigorous physical exercise that is consistent with your situation and physical condition and be regular in pursuing it. Get the blood circulating and give your major muscles a workout.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Sports, Workout, Exercise

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• You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

  Hamish Linklater

  Artist, Body, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Survival, Chance

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, December 12, 2010.

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• If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California

  Argus Hamilton

  Eight, Years, California

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• Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart, respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result.

  Ruth Winter

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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