1,154 Quotes About Exercise



  • Author George Combe
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    A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

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  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

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  • Author Henry Steele Commager
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    Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

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  • Author Henry Cloud
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    Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.

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  • Author Jai Courtney
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    I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

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  • Author Jamais Cascio
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    Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

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