Muscles Quotes - Page 40

• When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.

  Hope Solo

  Stars, Dancing, Hollywood

  "Hope Solo’s Nude ESPN Shoot Included Dropping Her Robe, Sprinting In The Middle Of The Street". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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• A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Men, Imagination

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• Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

  Gareth Bale

  Struggle, Growing, Ridiculous

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• Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

  Renee Fleming

  Believe, Athlete, Voice

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• As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

  Lynda Barry

  Wall, Dark, Velvet

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• When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Running, Yoga

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• In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Stronger, Study

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• People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body.

  Todd Rundgren

  Senior, Voice, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

  Andy Andrews

  Adversity, Preparation, Turns

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2016

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• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  Steve Gleason

  Two, Average, Talking

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• Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

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• Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.

  Daryl Hannah

  Shiver, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I do weights a few times a week. Not a lot of heavy weights. I do it just to keep my muscle toned. With the martial arts, I am doing pretty basic stuff. I do some sparring. If I get a chance, I will go swimming or running in-between. I keep in pretty good shape between films.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Running, Swimming, Weight

  "EXCLUSIVE: Dolph Lundgren Is Universal Soldier: Regeneration!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.

  Keri Russell

  Imagination, Use, Able

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.

  David Abram

  Dream, Sleep, Substance

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• I don't have a favorite body part nor do I have a favorite exercise. Everyone who is honest prefers machines over free-weights, because machines are more convenient and cause less muscle pain and require less concentration and are generally less dangerous. BUT, if you like to have real gains you have to train hard and heavy, and you have to chose always the LEAST favorite exercises which actually give you the best possible results. So go for the least favorite exercises, the free weights... and go for the muscle pain!

  Nasser El Sonbaty

  Pain, Real, Exercise

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• We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

  Simon Winchester

  Powerful, Distance, Stupid

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• One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Ankles, Body, Way

  "Fitness Tips From Professional Dancers" By Tiffany Tse, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Moving, Boys

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Air, Feelings

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• In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

  Henci Goer

  Medicine, Skins, Crowns

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

  Norbert Wiener

  Brain, Information, Matter

  Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.132, MIT Press

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• Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Thinking, Guy, Tough

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 92), 1975.

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