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Quotes About Exercises

I had a voice - I had an instrument - I loved singing and I had an inspired singing teacher, Miss Sleigh. I went to her every Saturday, and I now possess the upright Steinway piano beside which I used to stand in fear and trembling if I hadn't done my breathing exercises.
~ Patricia Routledge
When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.
~ Summer Glau
A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined and the soul gradually liberated. Taking nothing for granted on emotional grounds or by faith, a yogi practices a thoroughly tested series of exercises that were first mapped out by the ancient rishis. In every age of India, yoga has produced men who became truly free, true Yogi-Christs.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Taking nothing for granted on emotional grounds or by faith, a yogi practices a thoroughly tested series of exercises that were first mapped out by the ancient rishis.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.
~ Helen Schucman
Classical/Traditional Pilates instructors teach the exercises in a standard order that does not vary from student to student.
~ Lesley Logan
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
~ Wole Soyinka
The operations were big ones, so I knew it'd take a lot of hard work. It's hard, you know? You're in the gym for hours on end doing strengthening exercises, and that's just so you are able to start running again. You can't even think about getting on the pitch to start with.
~ Rhian Brewster
As our strongest ally in the Middle East, it is critical that we conduct military exercises with Israel to improve interoperability and readiness.
~ Ronny Jackson
View the lessons in this book as your playbook for successful living. They describe the essentials for living a remarkable life. Putting them into practice consistently is the prerequisite for designing a life worth living. This playbook also includes a variety of drills and exercises that will sharpen your understanding and application.
~ Unknown
That being said, experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes. While each of these tools and exercises can have a significant short-term impact on a team's ability to build trust
~ Unknown
That must drive you insa— Oh please. What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.
~ Dave Eggers
What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind.
~ Unknown
As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.
~ Cobi Jones
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and "orders" are in fact only of archaeological interest.
~ Idries Shah
La mayoría de las supuestas organizaciones Sufis, ejercicios y "órdenes" sólo son de interés arqueológico.
~ Idries Shah
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
~ Ken Thompson
Meditation need not mean sitting in a special posture. Nonetheless, we can use certain physical and mental exercises to calm the noises of the mind and body, and sensitize us to the sound of the soul.
~ Ilchi Lee
Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.
~ Michael Gough
Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.
~ Davis Guggenheim
Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.
~ Timothy Keller
The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.
~ Maria Montessori
For the child with such exercises makes, to a certain extent, a selection of his own tendencies, which were at first confused in the unconscious disorder of his movements. It is remarkable how clearly individual differences show themselves, if we proceed in this way; the child, conscious and free, reveals himself.
~ Maria Montessori