Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dewey

The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.

John Dewey

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

John Candy

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

George A. Sheehan

Exercise: you don't have time not to

Garry Trudeau

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Gabriela Isler

I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

Gabrielle Reece

I take the choice out of exercise. It's not an option.

Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

Liz Miller

People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels.

Livy

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Lynda Barry

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Malcolm Forbes

Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

Malcolm Gladwell

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made-on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

Major Owens

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Maggie Gallagher

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Jo Brand

My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.

Jo Brand

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

John C. Calhoun

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

James Packer

I do 90 minutes of exercise a day, and obviously I have the lap band... (it's) about being fitter, happier and more active.' But he admitted: 'I'm an idiot. I (still) smoke and do all those things I shouldn't do.

James Maslow

I tend to stay healthy because Ive been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when youre healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them.

James MacGregor Burns

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Emile Durkheim

This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality.... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it.... when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.

Edward T. Hall

When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

Cassidy

The members of our full time staff are exercise physiologists, ... We're not replacing physical therapists or anything, but we do help with the overall rehabilitation process.

Henry Taube

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Hjalmar Schacht

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

Hesiod

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

Helen Oyeyemi

Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes.

Helen Reddy

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

Heather Morris

When I’m working 16-hour days and I can’t work out, I get angry very easily. It’s because I’m missing all those good endorphins. For me, exercise equals happiness.

Hilaire Belloc

Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.