Best Exercise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.”

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“I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.”

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“To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.”

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Author:Julia Leigh

“Green exercise improves psychological health.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.”

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Author:Rose McGowan

“What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.”

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Author:Kathy Najimy

“I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that... ever.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.”

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Author:Sandra Oh

“The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.”

“I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.”

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Author:Barry Levinson

“I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.”

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Author:George Lopez

“Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.”

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Author:Ana Ortiz

“I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.”

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Author:Monica Potter

“Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.”

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Author:John L. Phillips

“But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.”

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Book:The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

Source: The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

“I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.”

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Author:Buddy Rice

“I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.”

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Author:Ali Smith

“My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.”

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Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.”

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Author:Gail Simmons

“People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.”

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Author:John Banville

“If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.”

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Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.”

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Author:Paulo Freire

“... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.”

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Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

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Author:Plato

“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.”

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Author:Bethenny Frankel

“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.”

“When I want to be bold about my movement ... I for sure do not call it exercise!”

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Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.”

Mind Firsts Use Genius Exercise Appreciate Valuable Maxims Appreciate Life

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.”

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Author:Edmund Vance Cooke

“Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.”

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Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.”

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Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.”

“Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.”

Parent Exercise Calmer

Author:Poppy Montgomery

“We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

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Book:Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times

Source: Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times

“Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don't get bored or distracted.”

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Author:Holly Madison

“With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.”

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Author:Kevin Whately

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