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Quotes About Posture

I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.
~ Future
I never cross my legs.
~ Brittney Griner
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
~ Joe Slovo
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
~ Paulo Coelho
For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.
~ Phil Jackson
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
~ Carine Roitfeld
I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I wish I hadn't been quite so dumb!
~ Sarah Parish
For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.
~ Ernie Els
Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.
~ Andrew Whitworth
I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!
~ Sarah Rafferty
It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies.
~ Richard Yates
She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.
~ Aron Nimzowitsch
Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence.
~ Yasser Arafat
If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity or leave it for the weeds to run riot in. There are some truths in this world that one cannot see unless one unbends one's posture.
~ Yukio Mishima
It isn't our responsibility to defend our values and prioritize our message over our posture. We inherited a kingdom that cannot be shaken; we are an unthreatened people. God will stay on His throne without our rigorous defense.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Our kids need spiritual mentors, and if a new language and posture will lead them, then we better hit our knees, pray for humility, and beg God to help us raise disciples that love Him beyond our homes. We prioritize transformation over methodology, because our rules have a shelf life but loyalty to Jesus does not. Let's keep the baby and change the bathwater.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Then he folded his arms on his chest, so his biceps strained at the sleeves of his t-shirt, courtesy of the arm curl machine.
~ Jennifer Echols
Shoulders back, titties first!
~ Jennifer Lewis
To hang our head ostensibly, And subsequent to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind, Affords the sly presumption That, in so dense a fuzz, You, too, take cobweb attitudes Upon a plane of gauze !
~ Emily Dickinson
On period costume posture coaching:) We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.
~ Emma Thompson
Nordic walking by default improves your posture because of the way you need to move with the walking poles. Aside
~ Andrea Fisher
With ballet, you're really focused on the inner thigh and butt and just lifting and lengthening everything, including your arms. You're not using weights, but holding up the weight of your own arms is a challenge.
~ Mary Helen Bowers
When we're sad, we slouch. We also slouch when we feel scared or powerless.
~ Amy Cuddy