Quotes About Posture

I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.

I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

I talk accumulated observations which tell me that the peaceful posture is the posture of the defeated. It is the posture of the victim. Victims invite aggression.

I didn't want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.

It's hard to imagine you've got these massive wings in your back. You have to think about how it's going to affect your posture, affect the way you move, just, like, the sheer weight of them.

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

We always think that the right thing is to make an effort to have domestic coaches. I don't think that posture is bad.

I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.

when you declare yourself an unwilling victim of a known risk, you have postured yourself as a poor loser in a game you chose to play.

Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture, once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear (p.251).

Shannon stopped prancing and tucked herself into a perfect sit. I smacked

The four foundations of mindfulness are the body (breathing, changes in posture, activities), feelings (the senses of pleasantness, unpleasantness, and neutrality), the mind (in particular, its moods and attitudes), and the objects of mind (which include the five senses but also other mental states, such as volition, tranquility, rapture, equanimity, and even mindfulness itself).

To ACCUMB  (ACCU'MB)   v.a.[accumbo, Lat.] To lie at the table, according to the ancient manner.Dict.   ACCUMBENT  (ACCU'MBENT)   adj.[accumbens, Lat.]Leaning. The Roman recumbent, or, more properly, accumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war.Arbuthnoton Coins.   

He crossed his legs in a slick way that showed that here was a guy, finally, who really knew how to sit down and cross his legs.

sitting at a computer for long

After a dog sniffs you over and accepts your nonthreatening posture, they'll likely retreat. If you need to move away, back away slowly and do not make eye contact with the dog.

I teach my human clients the importance of sitting or kneeling to pet or handle their puppy instead of bending over them, creating calming station for their puppy in the rooms they share, and playing with their puppy to strengthen their bond.

one learns that his bed was so short because most people back then slept sitting up;

We must stop even thinking of standing up straight. To think of it is fatal, for it commits us to the operation of an established habit of standing wrong. We must find an act within our power which is disconnected from any thought about standing. We must start to do another thing which on one side inhibits our falling into the customary bad position and on the other side is the beginning of a series of acts which may lead into the correct posture.[2] The hard-drinker

A student asking a question was sitting in an amazing posture: legs crossed at both the knee and the ankle, arms intertwined, elbows on the desk, fingers knit together, like his whole organic being aspired to be a French cruller.

I had a really bad running posture: like, I ran, literally, dropping on my face.