Posture Quotes - Page 5

• Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

  Helen Fisher

  Reading, Voice, Matter

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• As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Silence, Libertarian

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• And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fall, Gay, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.266, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Trying, Roles, Looks

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• The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

  George Carlin

  Smart, School, Careers

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

  David Ogilvy

  Crafts, Students, Assuming

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• You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.

  Evan Peters

  Moving, Men, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

  Rajneesh

  Yoga, Thinking, Mind

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• My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

  Lenny Henry

  Voice, Focus, Technique

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• The liberal posture really requires a willingness to give to others, and that works, as I say, when you have an expanding pie. But if you don't have an expanding pie, everyone starts hunkering down.

  Thomas B. Edsall

  Pie, Giving, Hunkering Down

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Jul 27, 2012

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• I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Art, Kids, Tired

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You just realize that you can't turn a lefthand corner in a right posture without exposing some part of your body, and so it was really me just noticing the exposure I had, and it made me start doing and practicing the switching.

  Steven Seagal

  Body, Realizing, Switching

  "Choose Your Weapon: Steven Seagal Talks His Favorite Guns". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

  James Thurber

  Ambition, Feet, Slave

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.

  Vartan Gregorian

  New York, Home, Pride

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• Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

  Seth

  Artist, Ideas, Two

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• There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.

  Anne Waldman

  Buddhist, Training, Lotuses

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, Views, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

  Liz Miller

  Art, Pain, Yoga

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• Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

  Bradley Cooper

  Portions

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• Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, Years, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Fall, Mean

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• In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation, Sitting, Body

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.35, Random House

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• A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

  John le Carre

  Philosophical, Thinking, People

  John le Carre (2002). “The Honourable Schoolboy”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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