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“When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.”

World Children Art Play Character Body Motivation Space Teach Stage Design Draws Roots Folks Traditional Celebrate Masterpiece Geometry Flutes

Book:Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

Source: Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

“Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.”

Source: Sexual suicide

“A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.”

Mind Body Inspiration Motivation Language Growth Forests Vocabulary

Author:Wade Davis

“Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Long Body Past Motivation Sin Men And Women Punishment Evident Torment Visionaries Asceticism Sightseeing Antipodes

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and accomplishing a goal that seems unattainable. You have to find your motivation, what inspires you.”

Mind Body Seems Motivation Goal Morning Inspire Athlete Ache Unattainable

Author:Jonathan Horton

“If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.”

Ifs Mind Body Inspiration Kids Motivation Grows Fronts Healthcare Tomatoes Kale

Author:Ron Finley

“You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.”

People Thinking Sometimes Body Motivation Language Intention Awful Irrational Body Language

Author:Ron Silver

“When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.”

Thinking Knows Men Important Shows Body Joy Motivation Suffering Opinion Singing Passionate Stimulus

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.”

“Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.”

Mind Wells Heart Body Able Pain Motivation Basketball Stress Pressure Depth Champion Maximum Mind And Body Famous Basketball

Book:Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man

Source: Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man

“I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.”

Thinking Body Inspiration Motivation Technology Obsessed

Author:Wayne McGregor

“Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.”

Body Inspiration Motivation Technology Creating Exciting Phones Application Mobile Mobile Phones

Author:Neil Harbisson

“I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.”

Body Inspiration Earth Motivation Technology Car Demand Limits Invincible Ipads

Author:Eve Ensler

“As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every moment of my life, including my emotions, attitudes, and motivations. The depth of emotion I experienced during this life review was astonishing. Not only could I feel the way both I and the other person had felt when an incident took place, I could also feel the feelings of the next person they reacted to. I was in a chain reaction of emotion, one that showed how deeply we affect one another.”

“I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.”

I Can Body Motivation Sports Break Seeing Limits Pushing Softball

Author:Amy Van Dyken