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Quotes About Posture

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them — at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.
~ Jordan Peterson
Stronger abdominal muscles will help you stand taller, creating a leaner appearance.
~ Jorge Cruise
Los que se levantan temprano a fuerzas constituyen un grupo social de descontentos, en donde se gestarían revoluciones si sus miembros no tuvieran la tendencia a quedarse dormidos con cualquier pretexto y en cualquier postura
~ Jorge Ibargüengoitia
The person of faith looks up to God, not at him or down on him. The servant assumes a certain posture, a stance. If he or she fails to take that posture, attentive responsiveness to the master's commands will be hard.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
A lot of the composing posture you see in Joanna I actually took from Lauren Bacall from 'To Have or Have Not.' I absolutely adored that movie as a kid, and I just remembered this woman who was so statuesque, and I was like, 'I want to do that.'
~ Stephanie Corneliussen
he's straight-backed, thanks to monthly Alexander Technique sessions to counteract what he calls academic hunchback syndrome
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Stojící ?lovÄ›k m?že dát pohodlnÄ› ruce do kapes, což není v Anglii považováno za nevhodné.
~ Bernhard Roetzel
It is rather his mind has so wide a range, and so rich a retention, that he simply cannot understand that ordinary folk do not always follow him. 'I little imagined,' he said, 'that I should find you in the posture of Sir Isaac Newton.' Oh dear, I thought, here it comes again. What on earth was the meaning of *that*? So I just said No... and went fiddling with the oil-squirter, trying to remember things about Newton.
~ Beverley Nichols
Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Lecrae
The style I have in judo is very unique... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.
~ Ronda Rousey
A double leg in MMA is completely different than what you would do in wrestling because the posture's different. You're standing upright as opposed to bent over; you're slipping a punch as a opposed to grabbing a guy's elbow and doing a traditional elbow pull or slide-by in wrestling.
~ Chael Sonnen
In The First 20 Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds notes, "I stand on one foot when I brush my teeth at night.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Desde los cincuenta, ya no representó ninguna edad. Y, siempre silenciosa, erguido el talle y mesurados los ademanes, parecía una mujer de madera que funcionara automáticamente.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I put my arms out in front of me so the dog wouldn't rip my hands off. I must have looked like a sleepwalker, but as I wanted my hands for other purposes, I didn't care about this baroque pose, though as a rule I cared fanatically about the way I looked, and behaved as if the entire world had nothing better to do than constantly observe me for slips in a very complicated and private etiquette
~ Hanif Kureishi
As a soldier, you don't stand at attention because it looks nice. You stand at attention because, on some level, it either gives you strength or, just as important, makes you appear stronger to both your comrades and enemies.
~ Harlan Coben
Myron was about to ask another follow-up question, but her posture made him rethink his words. Linda took advantage of his indecisiveness. She walked to the kitchen with an upright, fluid grace. Myron followed. Bucky seemed to snap out of a trance and trailed.
~ Harlan Coben
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
~ James Lipton
The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball.
~ Stephen Hendry
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.
~ Richard V. Allen
To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Actually the best way to relieve your mental suffering is to sit in zazen, even in such a confused state of mind and bad posture.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
If you want to discover the true meaning of Zen in your everyday life, you have to understand the meaning of keeping your mind on your breathing and your body in the right posture in zazen.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
and you will become friendly with others. This is the merit of Zen practice. But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort. This is how we practice Zen.
~ Shunryu Suzuki