Exercise
Quotes - Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor
“Listening
to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to
attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured,
the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was
what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.”
―
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“Getting
fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.”
―
Adam Hargreaves, Mr. Lazy's Guide to Fitness
“I've
always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You
are never what you seem.”
―
Benedict Cumberbatch
“The
writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to
be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and
day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."
[The
Writer's Digest Interview: Stephen King & Jerry B. Jenkins (Jessica
Strawser, Writer's Digest, May/June 2009)]”
―
Stephen King
“Exercise
is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day.”
―
Larry Niven, Ringworld
“Thinking
is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a
weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our
minds. They require us to think.”
―
Oliver Van DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of
Leaders for the Twenty-First Century
“If
I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400
pound guy.”
―
Scott Adams
“...the
gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects
species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym)
accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites
of bodily exertion.”
―
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“You
would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach
crunches can do for you.”
―
Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful
“Health
is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“At
present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not private property;
the landscape is not owned, and the walker enjoys comparative freedom. But
possibly the day will come when it will be partitioned off into so-called
pleasure-grounds, in which a few will take a narrow and exclusive pleasure
only,—when fences shall be multiplied, and man-traps and other engines invented
to confine men to the public road, and walking over the surface of God’s earth
shall be construed to mean trespassing on some gentleman’s grounds. To enjoy a
thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of
it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walking
“I
peer through the spectral, polluted, nicotine-sodden windows of my sock at
these old lollopers in their kiddie gear. Go home, I say. Go home, lie down,
and eat lots of potatoes. I had three handjobs yesterday. None was easy.
Sometimes you really have to buckle down to it, as you do with all forms of
exercise. It's simply a question of willpower. Anyone who's got the balls to
stand there and tell me that a handjob isn't exercise just doesn't know what
he's talking about. I almost had a heart-attack during number three. I take all
kinds of other exercise too. I walk up and down the stairs. I climb into cabs
and restaurant booths. I hike to the Butcher's Arms and the London Apprentice.
I cough a lot. I throw up pretty frequently, which really takes it out of you.
I sneeze, and hit the tub and the can. I get in and out of bed, often several
times a day.”
―
Martin Amis, Money
“I
have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend
to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are
tired; I was always tired.”
―
Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
“I
know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to
go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then
complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I
asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the
treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because
I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and
speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me
how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard.”
―
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian
Trail
“Listen
for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and
follow.”
―
Mollie Marti
“If
you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you
follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start
eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose
weight.”
―
Subodh Gupta, 7 habits of skinny woman
“So
your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour,
free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony.
Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others
will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will
become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many
terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.”
―
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
