Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Pilates

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

Joseph Pilates

It is the mind that shapes the body

Joseph Pilates

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

Joseph Pilates

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

Joseph Pilates

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

Joseph Pilates

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Julianna Baggott

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

Julianne Hough

I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.

Juan Gris

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.

Joshua Prager

What makes most of us who we are, most of all, is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Joshua Reynolds

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Joshua Reynolds

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Joshua Reynolds

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

Karl Lagerfeld

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

Karl Lagerfeld

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Kacey Musgraves

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

Kathy Acker

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Kathy Acker

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

Kami Garcia

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

Julie Powell

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

Judy Davis

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

Joyce Meyer

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

Joyce Meyer

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

Paul Tournier

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Paul Theroux

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Patrick White

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Maggie Stiefvater

It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.

Madame de Stael

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Madame de Stael

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Haruki Murakami

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

Haruki Murakami

But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.

Haruki Murakami

I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.