“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.” KnowsMenWorldWayDoeSelfHardYoungSilenceTalkingDoubtHeardStreetsFieldsExerciseTrainDareLimitationCrushYoung WomenHarassmentPresumptionSelf-doubtSpeaking UpOverconfidence Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.” IfsPlayDoubtFieldsExercisePressesCompton Author:Peter May
“If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.” IfsReasonFaithCausesDoubtExerciseDespairFirmNo DoubtNo HopeSecured Author:Francis Quarles
“New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.” WorldDoeMatterAmericaSpiritualRaceDoubtInfluenceNew YorkExerciseElementsNo Matter WhatMeetingsChineseNo DoubtDelicateForeignersNorth AmericaArmeniansGreat Influence Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.” IfsKnowsShouldMindLooksImportantSelfHatePartyDoubtCrazyExerciseMadnessSizeRefusePursuitJudgedRegimesNever EndingDietingArses Author:Arabella Weir
“Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.” WellsSelfChoicesDoubtExerciseDeterminationShameSpiteRestraintInfancyUnbrokenSelf RestraintFree Choice Book:Insight and Responsibility Source: Insight and Responsibility
“There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.” MenWellsMayLittlesFactsAblePastSocialDoubtDependsExerciseSocial LifeGreatest Success Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.” MenUseValuesLostWalksAnimalDoubtWalkingExerciseHorse Book:Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson Source: Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson
“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.” IfsNeedsDoeMatterProblemFormNightImaginationEffortEnemyDoubtLonelinessExerciseCallingConversationAnxietyRelationEnormousDevotionTendenciesOur LoveReciprocityGood Conversation Author:Barry Lopez
“Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.” WantLooksMayDoePlayFeelingsLastsEnergySilenceDoubtExerciseInfinitePassionateConvictionUncertaintyOur TimeUncertainLast WordsChatter Author:John Patrick Shanley