“It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.” WritingKindLittlesDifferentWarBigsFunStarsInterestingGroupsTypeExerciseIncrediblesSettingSettingsVery Interesting Author:Mark Millar
“I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.” KindRunningEmotionalExerciseStressMedicineMy FavoriteAlleviateEmotional Stress Author:Ziggy Marley
“I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.” FirstsKindMadeI CanUsedCan DoDecisionActingMonthsExerciseTwentiesUsed To BeBurnedCrashModerationDietingBurned Out Author:Rhea Seehorn
“Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.” IfsKindTwoBigsRunningReadingExerciseGardeningBikeItchy Author:Mark Deklin
“I put a lot of time and effort into the exercise I get, the amount of rest and sleep I get, and the amount I eat. And I think those three things are really kind of my wellness and health foundation.” ThinkingKindThreeSleepEffortAmountExerciseFoundationWellnessThree ThingsRest And Sleep Author:Jennifer Ashton
“All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.” PeopleWritingYearsKindInterestingExerciseConversationResponsePastorEmailPublicationThrough The Years Author:Max Lucado
“So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice to the extent that they are defunding Planned Parenthood, which, of course, provides all kinds of cancer screenings and other benefits for women in our country.” KindCountryStatesChoicesCoursesExerciseBenefitsCancerBlockAll KindsOur CountryParenthoodRegulationScreeningPlanned Parenthood Author:Hillary Clinton
“There's physical adversity, that if you are someone that likes exercise like I do, I exercise everyday. When you exercise, there's pain involved and so you're putting yourself through adversity in that situation. It's never totally pleasurable and there are moments where it's kind of boring or painful and you know that in doing that, you're making your mind and body tougher and more resilient. So must be able to deal with the boredom that happens in life.” IfsKnowsMindKindMomentsBodyHappensAblePainDealsSituationInvolvedExerciseAdversityEverydayPainfulBoringLikesBoredomMind And BodyResilient Author:Robert Greene
“Part of the reason I thought that I might do a series is, my dad has pretty much been on the same road to work for years and years. And it's like, "Could I do something like that? Am I so independent that I can't punch the clock at the same place?" So part of it was a kind of exercise. "Can I be responsible in this way?" And lo and behold, I could. Luckily. It'd be bad if I couldn't.” IfsWayYearsKindI CanReasonMightDadExerciseResponsibleIndependentSeriesMy DadClockBeing Responsible Author:Judd Nelson
“It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century.” NeedsKindDifferentEndsMightOrderEnergyChanceCuttingCenturyExerciseIndiaChinaThroatSurvivingTrajectoryNudgeChina And India Author:Bill McKibben
“Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.” IfsWorldFirstsBelieveHumansKindWould BeLanguageNaturalStepsExerciseElementsCapacityMiracleConfusionDataRelatedAcquirePetFirst StepsBeesInnateNatural WorldAcquisitionKittenEndowmentBloomingGranddaughterLanguage AcquisitionSongbirds Author:Noam Chomsky
“The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of scientific description, but with experiences of nature that impinge upon our moods and emotions, enrich our imagination and reveries, and shape our sense of how we stand in relation to the environing world. In a broad sense of the term, this kind of writing is an exercise in phenomenology, an attempt to render the significance that birds, plants or whatever have for us.” WorldWritingMindKindSometimesTermImaginationEmotionExerciseShapesMountainBirdConcernedRelationPlantMoodDescriptionSignificanceBroadsItemsIndulgeIndulge InReveriePhenomenology Author:David E. Cooper
“As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.” PeopleKindInterestingExerciseConversationPastorEmail Author:Max Lucado
“Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.” WayKindHappensFallKnowingExerciseSickFalling In LoveSurrenderBusPregnant Author:Susan Sarandon
“One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."” PeopleWellsKindPersonsDoeMadeHardEnoughUseNextRightsSecurityExerciseSmartLaborOrganizationInstitutionsWell BeingRelyFlexibleWhimWorkforceCalculusDisposableNeoliberalism Author:Judith Butler
“Palestine is about how we drink the water, whether we are being ecological or not. Palestine is our way of exercising our daily living. That's what's going to solve the problem of Palestine. It's also how we think of ourselves spiritually. This kind of disconnectedness is harmful to the person who is acting that way and is sometimes annoying.” ThinkingWayKindPersonsSometimesProblemWaterActingExerciseDrinkSolveAnnoyingPalestineEcologicalDaily LivingDisconnectedness Author:Elia Suleiman
“The images for my works are somewhat insignificant to me. It became an exercise of variation. I only see the surface images as doodles in a sketchbook, but it's hard to not see an image and bring some kind of personal association, though there's not a prescribed idea of what you're supposed to see.” KindExerciseInsignificant Author:Tara Donovan
“I love performing. I love doing improv. It's a totally terrifying experience, but it's something that I've always felt so strongly about and that I'm kind of obsessed with. And just as an actor, it's a great exercise. It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on your skills. Because the mandate of improv is kind of the same as acting: It's all about your scene partner, it's all about being present and in the moment and exploring together as a team, a collaboration.” TryingKindMomentsTogetherActingTeamExerciseScenePerformingObsessedCollaborationExploring Author:Tatiana Maslany
“It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.” KindFocusMeditationExercise Author:Toyin Odutola
“If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindExercisePainfulDirtyMotiveMeant To BeLaundryHumiliating Author:Stephen Dunn
“I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!" and this and that. It's all people would talk about - how I'm not very skinny. For a while, it made me pretty upset and I got a bit obsessive about it. I did a bunch of dieting and exercising and everything. I was losing weight, but I was still much bigger than everybody else. I didn't really see the point of making myself crazy anymore, so I kind of toned it down a little bit.” PeopleKindCrazyExerciseLosingUpsetObsessiveCurvy Author:Lara Stone
“Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.” ThinkingKindRealityImaginationActingExerciseBreatheWillingness Author:Walton Goggins
“When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.” PeopleKindDifferentTodayPastChoicesResponsibilityJourneyHonestExerciseConsequenceArtisticBeing HonestDifferent KindsTaking ResponsibilityCompensationOver The PastParanoid Author:Wang Jianwei
“The main joy I have in owning or being a part of my own label is the platform I've created to really push other artists and this other kind of musical muscle I get to exercise, it's not just me as a creator of music but me as a curator. That's been really exciting and I do get to have the autonomy and control and all those things with my releases, but now I get to go and find artists that I really love and like and share them with the world too.” WorldKindJoyArtistShareExerciseExcitingMusicalAutonomy Author:Jennifer Lee
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” ThinkingInspirationalKindSuccessNatureLeadershipQualityHistoryFocusHard WorkExerciseEssentialsOvercomingPerseverancePersistenceFitnessBusiness SuccessPersistPersistentGreat SuccessMotivational SalesDetermination And SuccessInspirational SuccessDetermination MotivationalGreatest SuccessInspirational PerseveranceDetermination And PersistenceInspirational DeterminationPerseverencePersonal SuccessInspirational SalesPatience And PerseveranceGreat SalesBusiness PersonMotivation And DeterminationGreatest SalesFitness WorkoutDedication And PerseveranceHave A Great DaySelf PerseverancePerseverance MotivationalPerseverance In LovePowerful MotivationalPerseverance And Hard WorkSales Success Author:John D. Rockefeller
“You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.” KindDifferentActorsMillionsMinutesExerciseDietsDancerDifferent KindsRemedySneezing Author:Anna Deavere Smith
“I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.” FirstsKindStatesReasonValuesUnitedUnited StatesRightsDangerousExerciseTenConstitutionTiredCriminalsAmendmentsI'm TiredThrowback Author:L. Neil Smith
“But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.” HumansKindValuesPeriodsExerciseAll KindsCompanionshipDeprivedLengthy Author:Wole Soyinka
“There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.” PeopleWantKindStuffMillionsExerciseFortuneVideoAll KindsInsanityWant MeWorth ItPostersCologne Author:Patrick Swayze
“I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.” KindYoungUsedTvsExerciseSticksWesternLibraryRadioEntertainmentMilesAll KindsArithmeticKansasPublic LibraryLooking Ahead Author:Clyde Tombaugh
“Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.” KindBodySleepRoomsShareExerciseBedVariousExperimentsDietsOnlinePhasesDiariesTemperatureForeheadsWristsPhysical ExerciseBody TemperatureSensors Author:Evgeny Morozov
“I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.” ShouldTryingKindRunningLevelsExerciseActivityCancerSpreadMythTreatmentMarathonCancer Treatment Author:Jo Brand
“Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.” PeopleKindRealityPastTurnsFightingHeroExerciseDivorceGhostDemonPhantomsPreoccupationHelen Book:The Sea, The Sea Source: The Sea, The Sea
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.” IfsThinkingKindMeanEnoughChoicesPayAttentionExerciseConsciousAdultsPay AttentionConstructsReally Mean Author:David Foster Wallace
“We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.” ThinkingKindSpiritualExerciseCrisisStriveAvailableCeaseTrust In GodSpiritual Crisis Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.” KindRealBodyExerciseCancerFatsSensibleMoldHysteriaDietingWomen's BodiesReal Women Author:Jo Nesbo