“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.” ThinkingLifeMindDoeCharacterBodyActionThreeForceBehindsAttitudeGreatnessPersonalityDrivingMoodInstancePilotsDriving Force Author:Walt Disney
“One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.” BookBodyPlansPagesThirdsInstanceTitlesDabs Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.” WellsBodyPowerfulCasesFireProduceImpactBlowBarsInstanceHeatIronSteelHammersFriction Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.” ShouldTryingBodyDesireAsksEnergyForceProcessLevelsPowerSubjectsMaterialsBehaviorConstitutionInstanceEtcGesturesOrganismsMultiplicitySubjectionSubjugation Author:Michel Foucault
“Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.” HumansSometimesBodyFormColorElementsRoseStrikesInstanceColourHuman Body Author:Ferdinand Hodler
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.” MenSoulBodyCausesBlackProgressWrittenBloodMen And WomenInstance Book:Emma Goldman Source: Emma Goldman
“... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of the mind is mobilized for healing the body. It's not magic; it is as scientific as the appropriate use of antibiotics, for science encompasses everything that is true in nature.” MindUseBodyPainHealingMagicInstanceTherapyTensionInjuryAppropriateTreatmentDiagnosisSyndromesPower Of The MindAntibioticsHealing The Body Author:John E. Sarno
“Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.” MindBodyMemoriesNostalgiaInstancePeculiarMind And BodyMalady Author:Honore de Balzac