Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

Scott McNealy

Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.

Lily Tomlin

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

Lena Olin

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

Lee Haney

Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

Lee Haney

When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.

Lee Haney

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Selena

I also don't exercise. I can't imagine exercising for two hours. Not my style.

Shannon Miller

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

Rudy Giuliani

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

Samuel Johnson

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Samuel Johnson

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Sam Walton

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

Sam Altman

Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

Rodney Atkins

I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

Robyn

People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.

To exercise is human; not to is divine.

Vinton Cerf

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Walt Whitman

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

Tom Glazer

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

Tom Hardy

t's much less daunting once you've put your foot on the road to it. I'm a notorious couch potato and I don't like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start.

Tom Hanks

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

Tom Hanks

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.

Tod Machover

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

Tod Machover

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.

Tim Ferriss

Exercise is overrated.

S. Jay Olshansky

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.