Best Muscle Memory Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I joked it must have something to do with the delicate precision of his fingers, honed through his playing, but it was a faint joke. He had too much muscle memory to be anything less than tender and exacting in touching anything that might make music.”

Music Touching Joke Finger Muscle Memory

Book:The Temptation of Eden

Source: The Temptation of Eden

“I have a friend from my graduate school days at The Ohio State University whom we nicknamed Aladdin. Aladdin and I took a number of Arabic classes together. Every now and then, we would play pick-up basketball at the university gym. Aladdin couldn’t shoot, but he was one of the quickest, most intense defenders I have ever seen. One day, he went high up for a layup at 100 mph, bumped a defender, and fell square on his head. Aladdin lay there motionless for a few minutes before gingerly getting up. He had apparently suffered a concussion. We drove him to the ER, before he decided in the reception that he felt okay enough to go home. I’ll never forget, while we were leaving the gym and during the car ride, Aladdin kept asking people to speak Arabic to him. I probably heard the phrase “Speak Arabic to me, Binyamin! [my Arabic name]” at least two dozen times. Aladdin, in his dizzied and confused state, waiting to be seen for a potentially serious injury, was afraid that he had forgotten Arabic. The next day Aladdin texted everyone saying he felt fine. In hindsight, this story is a comical illustration of every language learner’s worst fear: losing the skills they worked so hard to acquire. As it turns out, Aladdin didn’t forget Arabic and currently lives in Dubai.”

Education Learning Memory Language Learning Muscle Memory Foreign Languages

Book:The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me

Source: The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me

“The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone”

Music Practice Muscle Memory

Book:Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Source: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“Fascia knows where you are in the world; it's loaded with position sensors that contribute to your sense of balance and feeds those bearings directly to that fear-conditioning corner of your brain, the amygdala. Any movement grooved into the fascia feels soothing, gratifying, efficient; try to unlearn it, as any batting coach or ballet teacher will tell you, and you're in for a struggle. New movements, no matter how necessary or logical, just feel wrong.”

Muscle Memory Fascia

Book:Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“It was so freeing to allow her mind and her heart the opportunity to step aside and simply watch her body work. Better that they keep quiet. She had to listen to them catastrophize all the time. But this moment of tranquility was for her body alone.”

Meditation Exercise Overthinking Muscle Memory Overthinker Quiet Mind

Book:The Paragon

Source: The Paragon

“All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.”

Done Enough Moments Can Do Memories Roles Muscles Muscle Memory

Author:Josh Peck

“Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.”

I Can Can Do Memories Instinct Guitar Muscles Muscle Memory

Author:St. Vincent

“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.”

Years Mind I Can Ideas Sometimes Remember Memories Pieces Written Havens Paper Six Years Ago Down And Blue Muscles Chords Muscle Memory

Author:Ryan Adams

“I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.”

Knows Body Can Do Memories Weight Muscles Routine Amazed Muscle Memory

Author:Arjun Rampal

“Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it's exhausting.”

Want Wells Body Memories Your Body Muscles Exhausting Muscle Memory

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.”

Thinking Choices Memories Skills Appreciate Awful Muscles Accents Auditions Muscle Memory

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“I listen to all of my Dutch happy-hardcore songs from my raving techno days when I was about 14. It's the most horrible music ever. I think it's some kind of muscle memory that brings me back to when I was 14. It makes me bounce around the gym quite happily.”

Thinking Kind Song Memories Horrible Muscles Gym Bounce Dutch Hardcore Techno Muscle Memory

Author:Lara Stone

“There's no set time or schedule for developing one's skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn't come overnight. It's a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.”

Memories Exercise Skills Developing Muscles Schedules Golfers Muscle Memory

Author:Ben Hogan

“Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.”

Form Memories Brain Tasks Connections Instruments Muscles Rehearsing Muscle Memory Imagining Yourself

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.”

People Feels I Can Memories Weight Heavy Horrible Lifts Muscles Workout Jeans Heavy Weights Muscle Memory

Author:Arjun Rampal

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