Your Body Quotes - Page 36

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

Christopher Reeve

Heart, Mind, Body

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You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

Philip Kapleau

Rivers, Swim, Mind

Philip Kapleau (1989). “Zen: Merging of East and West”, Anchor

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Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time.

Walter Breuning

Long, Mind, Important

" World's oldest man dies at 114" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

Thomas Metzinger

Past, Information Processing, Brain

Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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Ultimately, the goal of hitting is to get your mind out of the way and let your body take over - and to slow the game down

Stacey Nuveman

Games, Goal, Mind

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Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

Beth Kephart

Song, Giving, Body

Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.

Bill Russell

Stars, Winning, Joy

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To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Shawn Johnson

Hurt, Athlete, Thinking

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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

Lynn Johnston

Dream, Morning, Lying

Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of our hands, arms, body etc. Without this appreciation and realization of the body and its many possibilities, we cannot perform as artists
You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life-nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

Michael Chekhov

Appreciation, Art, Mean

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That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

Lleyton Hewitt

Hard Work, Play, Tennis

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I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean

Carol Alt

Running, Golf, Long

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

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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Stan Getz

Challenges, Body, Saxophone

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Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Stan Getz

Art, Piano, Years

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Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size.

Larry Shipp

School, Track, Technique

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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Zoe Saldana

Inspirational, Dance, Party

"Zoe Saldana On Why She Quit Ballet As A Teen: ‘I Was Dying Inside’" By Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2012.

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It takes 4 weeks for you to notice your body changing, 8 weeks for your friends to notice, & 12 weeks for the rest of the world to notice. Give it 12 weeks. Don't quit.

Jillian Michaels

Motivational, Giving, World

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I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.

Paula Radcliffe

Pregnancy, Thinking, Stronger

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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

Oprah Winfrey

Motivational, Age, Body

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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

Get Well, Ties, Comfort

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.

Woody Harrelson

Success, Sex, Yoga

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Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.

Geneen Roth

Lonely, Lying, Fall

Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

Gautama Buddha

Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

Sasha Azevedo

Sports, Running, Past

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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Gautama Buddha

Life, Buddhist, Health

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