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Quotes About Posture

What fashion has started from hackers? They have bad posture, and they don't go out. I wish I had a hacker boyfriend - they stay at home up in the bedroom.
~ John Waters
When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
~ Christian Louboutin
I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain. That's more important to me than being thin.
~ Cobie Smulders
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
She held her shoulders straighter, and her breasts were bold.
~ Ross MacDonald
you sit for just a few hours a day with your spine erect, you will see that it will have an unmistakable effect on your life.
~ Sadhguru
To stand up straight — not straightened
~ Marcus Aurelius
at this distance you're a mirage, a glossy image fixed in the posture of the last time I saw you. Turn you over, there's a place for the address. Wish you were here.
~ Margaret Atwood
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
~ Ann Voskamp
Identity is a posture that we steal and assemble as a protective coating, but it's also a ski mask, camouflage and protection from the cold.
~ Anne Lamott
She reached the final wooden plank, only to find her way blocked by the boy, whose posture reminded her oddly of Officer Luke. More familiar was his insistence that she do as he wanted. What was it with men in Hallden today?
~ Selena Montgomery
Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
~ Seth Godin
Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.
~ Seth Godin
Relieved of this easily measured outcome, I could focus on the practice alone. I focused on the rhythm, on my posture, on the magic of the physics of casting. At some point, the professional has to bring home the fish. That's the fuel that permits the professional to show up each day. But the catch is the side effect of the practice itself. Get the practice right, and your commitment will open the door for the market to engage with your work.
~ Seth Godin
Our position in life should never determine our posture in service.
~ Sheila Walsh
So just look mean and don't make eye contact with anyone. (Syn) Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
~ Molly Shannon
She folded her arms across her chest and leaned back in her chair, aware of how defensive her body language was and not caring at all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He held himself right, collected, confident, but without the swaggering she was used to seeing on successful males. As if he didn't feel the need to constantly claim his space and assent his presence.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It came out in his posture, he thought, the way his chin and shoulders lifted. Mallory brought energy into any room.
~ Elizabeth Bear
When Samael uncrossed his arms, it was to stand hipshot, balanced one the toes of one bare foot and the heel of the other. He had simulated silver toenail polish.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There is a requirement to minister before God before one ministers to men, and if we lack the sense of the sacredness of God, which is to be found only in the holy place by those who have the posture of the priest, that is to say, prostrated as a dead man before Him, then there is going to be something brittle, something lacking, something untempered and something plastic in the correct thing that we bring.
~ Arthur Katz
Stability-The Physical Body (Asana)
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Slouching acts like a narcotic to the body. When our parents tell us not to slouch, it is because they instinctively understand that collapsing our chest caves in the very Self. It is because you mind shrinks that your soul shrinks. It is the spine's job to keep the mind alert. It is the spine's job to keep the mind alert. To do this, the spine has to keep the brain in position.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar