Posture Quotes - Page 6

• Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

  Terence McKenna

  Yoga, Light, Goal

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• When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pain, Archer, Order

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• Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.

  Seth Klarman

  Gun, Perspective, Long

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• A drink this good deserves one's best posture.

  John Green

  Drink, Deserve

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.106, Penguin

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• The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, United States, Tasks

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.219, Verso

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• If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.

  Antony Flew

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

  Antony Flew, John Shosky (1998). “Philosophical Essays”, p.6, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

  Dan Barker

  Country, Prayer, Government

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• Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.

  Christa Wolf

  Fighting, People, Insecurity

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• Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Yoga, Mean

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

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• Your best posture is your next posture.

  Morgan Freeman

  Pain, Next, Injury

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• The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

  Christy Turlington

  Meditation, Way, Lotuses

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• There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Running, Zero, Sleep

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• I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Hands, Feet, Tunes

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.

  Andrew Stone

  Talking, People, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Our health and well-being is something that we can almost control, to a certain extent. We can choose to eat healthy, we can choose to think positively, and we can choose to have good posture. All this stuff makes a difference, and the way that you look and feel, and your confidence.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Thinking, Differences, Healthy

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• This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heart, Mind, Ministry

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.634

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• They're willing to accept changes on the part of the U.S. that contribute to more money entering Cuba so they can benefit. But in terms of political changes on the island, an opening, etc., that won't happen, that won't change, and I've always said that, from the beginning. I've even said that it doesn't matter how many tourists who to Cuba, how many times the President visits Cuba; there won't be any changes in the Cuban government's posture. And that is the same as always.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Islands, Political

  Source: www.univision.com

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• But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

  William Johnson Cory

  Art, School, Expression

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• Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

  Theodore Millon

  Party, Circles, Point Break

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• The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Light, Expression

  Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

  Ted Malloch

  Motivation, Competition, Moral

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.

  Bryan Batt

  Nice, Daddy, Style

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• One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective treatment should address suppressed emotions-such as anxiety and self-image-as well as the physical dimension. To achieve this, they encourage correction of poor posture, and helping the person relax the irrelevant respiratory muscles while restoring full diaphragmatic breathing. They also recommended finding ways for getting rid of excess mucus. The good news is that a well rounded breath practice will do all these things.

  Donna Farhi

  Self, Practice, Breathing

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• To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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