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

Ifs Long Exercise Theater Muscles

Author:Clarke Peters

“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.”

“I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.”

Source: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

“Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.”

Long Care Exercise Take Care

Author:Brigham Young

“Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.”

Ifs Long Use Loses Brain Exercise Sitting Areas Intellect Muscles Maps Impatient Use It Or Lose It

Book:The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.”

Long Feelings Courses Serious Higher Exercise Activity Discovery Originals Silent Invention Flash Cultivation

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.”

People Ifs Long Five Keys Exercise Picks Weight Accounts Handle Pounds Where You Are Up To You Pennies Bank Accounts Where You Are Going

Author:Jack LaLanne

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.”

“Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.”

Mind Long Science Study Exercise Computer Buddhist Fascinating Computer Science

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.”

People Men Giving Mean Long Whole Water Class Forever Rich Air He Man Exercise Please Property Accidents Lists Plenty Gentleman Etc Dirt Superiority Rags Workmen Ulysses

Author:Charles Kingsley

“In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.”

Years Long Body Poor Views Exercise Late Hungry Vulnerable Diets Regimes New Year Teens Body Image

Author:Arabella Weir

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.”

Ifs Giving Long Said Hard Remember Results Knowing Generations Exercise Battle Vote They Said Right To Vote Suffragists

Author:Pat Mitchell

“... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”

“No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.”

Men Way Want Feels Long Enough Law Liberty Exercise Remains Spheres Restraint

Author:J. G. Holland

“Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.”

Men Long Problem Bigs Left Given Attention Careers Pieces Exercise Overcoming Difficulty Illness Absence Thrown Flats Frank Initiative Big Things Subordinates Turning Points

Author:B. C. Forbes

“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”

“To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.”

Long Happiness Hours Sleep Exercise Meat Lasting Cheerfulness Long Lasting

Book:Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

“A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.”

Trying Looks Long Exercise Projects Long Time Genre Long Time Ago

Author:Ron Howard

“Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.”

Ifs Want Long Use Willing Tvs Exercise Gym Equipment Advertisements

Author:Mark Spitz

“I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!”

People Way Feels Trying Years Long Stills Self Sometimes Feelings Able Jobs Used Creativity Creative Focus Exercise Lucky Pressure Used To Be Specialization Grappling

Author:Ani DiFranco

“It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.”

Ifs Long Two Three Asks Difficult Hours Prayer Five Minutes Exercise Knees Protest Five Minutes

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty.”

Ifs Giving Feels Long Used Effects Exercise Long Time Balls Guilty Suggestions Predictions Crystals Futility Gloomy Crystal Ball

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.”

People Persons Long Hands Running Earth Individual Fiction Liberty Exercise Prove Institutions Command Destructive Long Runs Sovereignty Individual Liberty

Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

“I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to the core. People want to be masters of their own destinies, but at the same time, I think they do so selectively. Sometimes they want to be told exactly what to do so they don't have to think for themselves - as long as they can still exercise their free will.”

People Thinking Want Long Stills Ideas Sometimes Reason Political Liberty Destiny Masters Exercise Core Free Will Misused

Author:Shepard Fairey

“A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.”

Ifs Men Should Long Doe States Play Seems He Man Citizens Exercise Police Offended Free State

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Your core is so important. Get your endurance up. Running and long-distance. Swimming is good as well. Important to have a good core, utilize the proper exercises to strengthen it. It goes out to the rest of your body and makes sure your body is right.”

Wells Long Important Body Running Exercise Distance Your Body Core Endurance Swimming Long Distance

Author:Jozy Altidore

“We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration”

Needs Long Brain Periods Exercise Concentration Physical Exercise

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.”

Children Long Play Running Wanted Used Practice Heard Exercise Brown Toys Trumpets

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.”

People Thinking Way Long Government America Honest Exercise Capable Administration Department Introducing

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

“To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.”

May Persons Long Life Is Goal Exercise Ultimate Sacred Perpetual Life Goal Ultimate Goal

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.”

Long Doe Individual Enjoy Liberty Exercise Privilege Interfere Peace And Happiness

Author:David O. McKay

“Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats and therefore tolerate a virtually unlimited exercise of presidential power. Until we can restore limited, constitutional government in this country, God save us from great presidents.”

“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.”

Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

“When I was younger, I could eat whatever I wanted, as long as I exercised; or if I didn't exercise and just watched what I ate, I'd maintain. Now I have to do both.”

Ifs Long Wanted Exercise

Author:Michelle Obama

“Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.”

“I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy. I get antsy and annoyed if I am sedentary too long. I mix up exercise - yoga, Pilates, hiking, running, and weights. I also eat well. I do not eat meat or poultry - have not since I was eighteen.”

Ifs Wells Long Running Sports Enjoy Grew Exercise Grew Up Yoga Weight Active Meat Staying Hiking Annoyed Eighteen Pilates Sedentary Poultry Physically Active

Author:Tricia Helfer

“I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.”

Ifs Long Term Loses Plans Week Exercise Comfort Connections Weight Long Term Pounds Replacements

Author:Tony Robbins

“Experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.”

Long Process Team Exercise Tools Fundamentals Valuable Teamwork Relevant

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.”

Way Long Whole Stories Would Be Able Wanted Film Subjects Exercise Concerned Seconds Blanche

Author:Sergio Leone

“I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.”

Ifs Years Long Results Havens Months Exercise Six Six Months

Author:Simon Sinek

“We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.”

“I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!”

Ifs Long Light Half Minutes Exercise Quiet Long Time Weight Oil Lifts Muscles Strain Stretching Superwoman Abdominals

Author:Sophia Loren

“I feel like talking to people who don't tour, when you talk about touring - obviously we're super blessed and very lucky to be doing what we do - but there are so many weird things that could never happen anywhere else. When I talk to people who don't tour they look at me like I'm being bratty and complaining about this job that I have. It's not that! It's the fact that when I'm home I can exercise every day, I can cook myself good meals, then when I'm on the road for a long time it's like, "There's a Subway. I guess I'm eating a bowl full of lettuce because I don't eat McDonalds."”

“Exercise is very important, first of all if you think about it, especially in a long flight like a six month space flight and on the ISS. If you didn't exercise and used the analogy on earth, it would be like laying in bed. So, just imagine laying in bed for several months, and even just trying to get up and walk, you probably wouldn't be able to. But if you got up and you exercised two hours a day, you'd probably be okay, and that's the same in space.”

Thinking Trying Long Important Earth Hours Imagine Exercise Okay Flight

Author:Leroy Chiao

“It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.”

Writing Long Different Film Fun Decision Exercise Complicated

Author:Dean Wareham

“I stay out of the sun, and if I'm in the sun, I'm wearing SPF. I protect my skin as much as I can; I learned that a long time ago. I also exercise every day and I get the endorphins going. It's important not only for my physical self but also for my mental self and my emotional self. I'm healthy, I eat well most of the time, I take care of myself and I drink a lot of water. But I also enjoy myself. Taking care of yourself doesn't have to be painful, it's about finding the right balance, I think.”

Thinking Long Important Care Enjoy Water Emotional Balance Exercise Drink Healthy Protect Skins Painful Take Care Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.”

People Long Energy Loses Exercise Muscles Vitality Older People Inactivity Atrophy

Author:Jack LaLanne