1,154 Quotes About Exercise

  • Author Gene Tunney
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    But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

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  • Author John Travolta
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    It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

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  • Author Linus Torvalds
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    It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

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  • Author Margaret Thatcher
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    We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

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