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Quotes About Physical

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Shaq is such a load. He's so big and strong, but it's possible to play well against him.
~ Christian Laettner
Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
~ Catherine Deneuve
I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
~ Edith Pearlman
As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.
~ Ryan Babel
I'm not mad at digital media at all; I just see the importance and beauty of physical media.
~ El-P
My dad was a stickler for teaching me the pratfall. There is something magical about taking a good fall, and when it works, when you get that laugh, there's no better feeling in the world.
~ Jerry Lewis
Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder.
~ Bari Weiss
I think a tennis match is a marathon. You have to sit down and have food for the next three hours, if not more. And to ask a 15 or 20 or even 25 or 30-year-old to do that, this is not gonna happen.
~ Patrick Mouratoglou
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe is magical, greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't attribute to a governing god, but simply to the surprising, ecstatic, frightening everyday reality we all know. Ultimately, I find consciousness a fascinating predicament for matter to get into.
~ Diane Ackerman
Earth. We, in this physical body, don't have to be negative. We can be positive. And when we know love and give love, we experience what is beyond this world. We need to know we're spiritual, we're balanced.
~ Dolores Cannon
To men at this remove, it is as though things exist in their particular physical form in order to reveal the hidden simplicity of some powerful mathematical truth.
~ Don DeLillo
The standards should reflect the psychological conceptual models, not the physical mechanics.
~ Donald A. Norman
Forcing functions are a form of physical constraint: situations in which the actions are constrained so that failure at one stage prevents the next step from happening. Starting a car has a forcing function associated with it—the driver must have some physical object that signifies permission to use the car. In
~ Donald A. Norman
If you work with only your body, all you'll do is work for enough to eat.
~ Donna Leon
When he thought about it, it seemed to Brunetti that what he did when he came here was similar to what a person who was going to experience physical pain—an injection, exposure to sharp cold—did with his body: he tensed his muscles and concentrated, to the exclusion of all other sensation, on resisting that anticipated pain. But, instead of tightening his muscles, Brunetti found himself, if such a thing could be said to be, tightening his soul.
~ Donna Leon
I took a moment before saying, "You think the murderer is a Brazilian samba trio." Dailey held up his right hand and ticked off fingers. "They're organized. Focused. Motivated. And are in excellent physical condition, by the looks of the pictures on their CD.
~ J.A. Konrath
When stress becomes a habit mentally, emotionally, and physically, a default setting on our inner dial, then it becomes "normal" and we no longer notice its presence. But the stress is still there, and it affects how we perceive, feel, and react to events in our lives. And stress is the major cause of anxiety.
~ J.P. Moreland
Scientific Naturalism Just what is scientific naturalism (hereafter, naturalism)? Succinctly put, it is the view that the spatio-temporal universe of physical objects, properties, events, and processes that are well established by scientific forms of investigation is all there is, was, or ever will be.
~ J.P. Moreland
Fitness is perishable.
~ Unknown
With the men standing between five feet eight and five feet ten, they were inches taller than the average Spanish soldier—taller than Cushing.
~ Unknown
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
~ Unknown
The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life." –
~ Jack Johnson
A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
~ Jack Kornfield