Relaxed Quotes - Page 8

• The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds' commands.

  H. E Davey

  Strong, Healthy, Mind

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• I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

  Samantha Bond

  Holiday, Family Holiday, I Can

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• You must be on your toes constantly, yet be relaxed.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Toes, Martial Arts

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• Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

  Raymond Chandler

  God, Writing, Eye

  Letter to Edward Weeks, 18 Jan. 1947, in F. MacShane Life of Raymond Chandler (1976) ch. 7

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• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

  Christopher Alexander

  Mistake, Simple, Differences

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• So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

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• When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

  Chris Prentiss

  Thinking, Ideas, Littles

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.19, BookBaby

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• Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you feel relaxed, you can go to sleep; if you repress it, you remain tense. And if you repress sex - the only release, the only possibility of release - what will happen? You will go mad. Where will you release your tensions then?

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Sleep, Mad

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• What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

  Pema Chodron

  What If, Accepted, Uncertainty Of Life

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• Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are contained and the mind is relaxed.

  Satyananda Saraswati

  Lying, Yoga, Healing

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• In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Morning, Nice, Eyelashes

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• I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.

  Eli Manning

  Successful, Thinking, Guy

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• I do my best hitting when I'm walking. That means I'm relaxed and my pitch recognition is a lot better.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Mean, Hitting, Recognition

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• First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Moving, Relaxation

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• You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

  Rajneesh

  Relaxation, Tension, Ask Me

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• Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of all guilt and all fear. I would like to tell you: there is no hell and no heaven. So don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven. All that exists is this moment. You can make this moment a hell or a heaven - that certainly is possible - but there is no heaven or hell somewhere else. Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed. Total relaxation is paradise.

  Rajneesh

  Somewhere Else, Effort, Heaven

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• True creativity is more likely if you are more relaxed

  Harry Borden

  Creativity, Relaxation, Ifs

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• Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Flying, Aviation, Great Aviation

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• If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been with my girlfriend for five years and it's important to me that she feels relaxed and free. I hate to see someone made to feel unsafe and helpless - particularly women as men are physically stronger.

  Ashley Banjo

  Girlfriend, Hate, Men

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• Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

  Asafa Powell

  Running, Race, Games

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• I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

  Josh Beckett

  League, Arrogant, Body

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• Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

  LaToya London

  Fun, Cameras, Quiet

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• To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Play, Done

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.89, Souvenir Press

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• I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

  Troy Glaus

  Games, Trying, Keel

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• In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.

  Albert Pujols

  Heart, Kids, Mind

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