Muscles Quotes by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dorian Yates, Catherine O’Hara, Djuna Barnes, Anne Sexton, Fallon Sherrock and many others.
Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that’s what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can’t go through it, forget it.
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.
You’ve got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
The silence is death.
It comes each day with its shock
to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
and peck at the black eyes
and the vibrating red muscle
of my mouth.
It comes each day with its shock
to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
and peck at the black eyes
and the vibrating red muscle
of my mouth.
As long as you put the effort in with your practice, the muscles in your arm stay relaxed and mental preparation is all it takes.
In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you’re a musician, too.
If you’re paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you’re not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I’ve learned to love them. I don’t even think of it as a flaw anymore because it’s made me into the athlete that I am.
The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.
When you play guitar and strum, you’re using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn your wrist, your forearm, using smaller muscles in your arm that are much more efficient and much quicker.
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others – it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there’s no substitute for live theater.
I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it’s core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it’s sore.
Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone.
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.
Problems are God’s resistance to create spiritual muscles.
I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can’t put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.
You have to connect with the crowd. If you can’t do that, I don’t care how good a wrestler you are, or how much muscle you have or how cool your hair is. You have to connect with the crowd. The guys who I like are the ones who have that connection.
When people are surprised I can do things is always fun. Just because I have muscles doesn’t mean I don’t play video games.
She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.
I’m definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that’s interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.
Be sure to use different exercises with every workout. Always confuse the muscles in to new growth.
When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.
The standing yoga routines work all the main muscles of the body and improve stamina while increasing your metabolic rate, and there is a specific Yoga Abs workout to build all-important core strength to improve posture and trim the waistline.
You want to have fun and try new things but also shock your muscles with new workouts so that you keep your body guessing and get the maximum results from your workout.
It’s nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it’s all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.
Talking about muscles. They’re like pets basically. They’re not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don’t, they just go away. They run away.
People stared. Maybe because they were giants compared to everyone else, both in height and muscle mass. Maybe because of the telltale bulge of weapons at their waist. Or maybe because William opened a bag of Doritos and ate while he shopped. Hard to tell.
You’ve got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body’s doing. It’s about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.
The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn’t get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbells. He became the king of the jungle through constant natural use of every muscle in his body.
The mechanical brain does not secrete thought “as the liver does bile,” as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.
I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don’t run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.
Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It’s just us flexing our Semitic muscles.
Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don’t care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it’s like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.
I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it’s regular-sized and my muscles are huge.
I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.
My muscles have caved in. I go to bed at night, and next day I’ve got this pot belly where all my muscles have collapsed; so I look fat, but there’s nothing I can do about it.
Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn’t normally be called upon in life.
Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.
A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.
You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
A face isn’t an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot.
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle – the heart.
The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.
On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.
Life yields only to the conqueror.
I’m a massive tennis fan! I love it to bits. I wish I could play, but I am worried that the muscles required for tennis are sort of in direct opposition to those required for mandolin playing.
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.
You don’t have to shoot me,” says the young lion. “I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won’t move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.
Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won’t lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.
Take that tape measure out. That won’t lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.
When I go into the gym, I’m working on getting my muscles stronger, and I try to treat my mind in the same manner.
Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it’s going to shunt everything into the muscle.
I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I’ve never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman – she’s really my only idol. It’s going to be a big stretch – certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
A cardio workout increases blood flow and acts as a filter system. It brings nutrients like oxygen, protein, and iron to the muscles that you’ve been training and helps them recover faster.
My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
Hydration is everything. Think of this: your muscles are 70-plus percent water – how are you not drinking water during a workout? I get the whole, ‘Let’s challenge ourselves; let’s do that prison, tough guy thing,’ but at the end of the day, you’re underperforming.
There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!
All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles – that is a story of everything I have done. And it’s not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
Nervous? He’s tighter than Pat Buchanan’s sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.
Don’t wait until you’re not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you’ll start to develop a ‘fearlessness muscle’.
I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I’m like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I’ve got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.
They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can’t move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.
You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
I want to exercise all my muscles. I want to do plays. I want to do everything.
Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.
Obviously, with a CGI character, you’re building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.
When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body
I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that’s quite prudent, it means you’re stretching different muscles, and you’re scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren’t involved that they don’t have to go into spasms too.
The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers’ room together, I know where their muscles need to be.
I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don’t have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it’s what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That’s pretty cool.
Whatever storytelling muscles you’ve developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they’re afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.
I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one’s legs.
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You’re training your artistic muscles to find your voice.
The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That’s much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
The key to building massive, powerful muscles is to doggedly increase the training weights you use.
I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.
every move of his body sent ripples along those lean muscles. his flawless crystal skin practically dared people to see ifit felt as good as it loked – which it did.
I need to improve my muscles because they are still quite small at the moment.
Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
We can’t avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
You can buy muscles, but you can’t buy COJONES!
Yes it is better to keep training even if your muscle is still sore.
When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I’d shout, ‘Ha!’ and he’d be on the ground in a headlock.
If embarrassment were a muscle, I’d be huge.
Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
One of the things that I’m realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.
There were times when I tried to hide my muscles. When you’re a young girl, you hear, ‘You’re really strong,’ or, ‘You have really toned arms.’ In my head, it wasn’t something that should be said about a girl. It should be more, ‘You’re pretty.’
I’ve done some awful auditions, and I’ve really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that’s what makes you a better actor, just doing bad work and seeing what looks bad and growing from it.
The attention I get has been great. It has opened so many doors for me. It’s nice that people are accepting beautiful women as athletes. It’s encouraging to girls that muscles don’t mean you can’t be beautiful.
I had surgery on my core muscles. They were ripping apart.
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one’s head.
A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I’m vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I’d eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don’t see me.
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle – broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would … … but I’m a man of thirty – of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism – I’m born again.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Every Monday, we’re asked to undertake jump tests to check the conditions of our muscles. There’s nothing you can hide. Once a week, they do urine tests, and your body fat percentage is tested regularly. The doctors cover all bases.
In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don’t go to the place they need to go to make the sound.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
I’ve been diagnosed with what’s called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It’s kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don’t allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.
Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to ‘release’ the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch.
My wife, Melissa, and I, together with our neighbors, try to create experiences for our kids that build character. We want our kids to exercise their muscles and their minds.
It’s just not enough time on set. That’s my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that’s when I’m stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.
I’ll spend about an hour and a half working out: mobility, activate whatever muscles, a full-body session every time, some full-body exercises and some upper-body exercises.
I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.
Muscles are fantastic and to have them is amazing, but it’s not the be all and end all.
What I’m doing is the thing I want to do. I don’t care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me.
Remember the mind is your best muscle…BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains… Ride the brain train for success.
With any kind of artistic thing, it’s a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you’re not doing it, you lose all confidence. That’s why I’m terrible with down time.
It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
Well, being fit is not about flaunting muscles or biceps. Being fit is about flexibility and fit is about flexibility and body composition.
The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.
I shouldn’t even be wearing a tutu. I don’t have the right legs, my muscles are too big.
The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one’s earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?
I think the two exercises that have helped me the most include using the bands with my ankles, and then another one of my favorites is where I lean on a balloon-shaped ball with my forehead touching it and rotate my head front, back and sideways to build up the muscles and ligaments in my neck.
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.
It’s all in the mind or it’s all in the head. Surrounded by bone, it’s nothing but muscle.
There’s no set time or schedule for developing one’s skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn’t come overnight. It’s a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
We decided we wanted the site to provide readers with fresh new stories to enjoy between major book releases by their favorite authors while allowing those same authors to flex their creative muscles.
When I did ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.
Audiences may not realize it, but heroes and leading men always depend on their muscles to get out of jams. They don’t have to slug a guy in the mouth to solve a problem, but it’s always hinted that he can fight like the heavyweight champ if he has to.
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Wake up muscles we’re in New York now.
I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
I’ve been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.
Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.
I don’t go to the gym on a daily basis because it makes my muscles tight when I get in the game.
The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That’s what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.
A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn’t mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.
I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.
When you’re hypermobile, it’s easy to think your muscles are flexible, but your flexibility is really around your joints and not your muscles.
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
For 14 years, I’d been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I’d lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
I’m not just muscles and headlocks. I need to prove to people that there is an elegant woman in here.
There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it’s not  –  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.
Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.
I was talking about [Donald] Trump and certain things he was saying, that he wanted to go into Iraq and just “take the oil.” I said he sounded like the Corleone Family from The Godfather, you know, “Let’s just get it all while we got the muscle.”
You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.
I carry tension in my shoulders, and I fell in love with yoga because it stretches the muscles that have become tense as a result of stress.
The only way to isolate specific back muscles – whether it is upper. or lower back – or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection.
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that’s when they need to see about getting lessons.
Try to stick to free weights as much as possible as they work the stabilizers as well as the main muscles being targeted!
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.
Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it’s exhausting.
The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.
I like a really natural looking body, so I’m not into muscles and looking like you just did 1,000 pull-ups and sit-ups and like you only eat lean turkey. That’s not for me. I just like people to look like people, and so I think it’s really attractive when men don’t have perfect bodies.
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
You can’t get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you’ve got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It’s the fat!
Botox, trust me I’ve been tempted – but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles – and your skin – if you’re sick and don’t move for a few days.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.
Some people don’t believe in cold. I’ve gotten so used to it that I love it… and doing those things to get my muscles to bounce back and recover have been very beneficial for the longevity of my career.
Your play account is also designed to strengthen your “receiving” muscle.
You can do crunches all day long, and you abs will indeed get bigger and stronger, but you will never see them. The only way to see the muscles you work so hard for is to lose weight globally – across your entire body.
I don’t always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.
Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn’t a single muscle which doesn’t serve its purpose; that there’s not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.
I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.
Our military doesn’t defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition.
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
I’m looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn’t want to do that on a regular basis.
Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he’s sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here— every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
I work out with alot of gay guys at the gym. I do, because my only goal is to get into gay shape. Now, you know what I’m talking about. Gay men are the most ripped kind of… listen… I don’t know how strong you have to be to blow a guy, but I’m guessin’, there is some muscle involved.
I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt…It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.
Hard work is a muscle that you develop, as is taking risks.
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
Test cricket is not easy. If you haven’t played first-class cricket for five years, then your muscles aren’t used to bowling for that long.
As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.
I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i’m trying it out.
Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it’s just plain fun.
When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn’t heard.
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he’s a schoolteacher. He’s not meant to be muscle-y.
A boy’s muscles move quicker than his thoughts.
As a baby grows in the womb, the surrounding abdominal muscles stretch outward. If you don’t tighten up those muscles after delivery, your abs will remain loose and weak.
A lot of fitness is about contractions – you’re doing squats, or you’re on a bike and your knees are bending but never stretching all the way, so your muscles get strengthened but look short and thick.
I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that’s why it’s usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it!
Comedy is something that I’m definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it’s a different muscle, and it’s hard to find female comedians.
I’ve broken a lot of things. I’ve torn a lot of muscles. I’ve torn a lot of ligaments.
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
…I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles
If you want it to be, your heart can be your biggest and most powerful muscle in your body.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Money and muscle, that’s what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won’t do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won’t enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
There’s some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn’t let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.
My normal weight category is 48 kg. So for the 51 kg. category, I had to depend on lots of food and drinks before going in for the weigh-in. But that does not make my strength, my muscles. It’s a little bit different. If there’s a 48 kg. category, it’s a perfect fit for me.
Running is a way for me to relax. With one hour of intense running, I can get a lot of physical exercise. I can relax my body. I feel a tension in my muscles when I don’t run. In that sense, I need to get out a few times a week in order to do my work as a scientist, which involves a lot of sitting still.
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
It’s so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That’s what I look for in any role.
Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.
If you don’t set your writing – teaching – at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
The c**k isn’t a muscle so it doesn’t grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can’t make it bigger through exercise, that’s for sure.
How is it that I’d nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother’s abdominal muscles a few minutes later?
I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can’t paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn’t just build muscle he creates muscle. You can’t be a robot.
If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.
His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.
Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I’m even starting to get muscles on my tummy – it’s incredible.
When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!
I’m already a tiny person, so now I’m trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!
I am not really into mediation etc. but I am more interested in physical benefits of yoga. I love the fact that it helps me keep a control on my body and muscles.
It’s happened a couple of times in training when I hyper-extend my back. Some facet joints send all the muscles in my lower back and lumbar-spine into spasm.
Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.
I’d always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.
I want to get stronger. I want to get slimmer. I’m already slimmer, but I want to get some muscles so I can fight all these guys in the post.
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.
Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don’t look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don’t disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don’t want is a society that tells me I have to.
People don’t realize that when they ‘throw out’ their back, it’s often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.
I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.
I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.
When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height – it’s how to love yourself by moving.
When you play a serious role, as far as I’m concerned, I feel I’m using exactly the same skills, whatever they are, to play the role as you do with something more obviously comic. It’s slightly different muscles, but the same skill set.
I enjoy getting to work on ‘Saturday Night Live’, where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on’ Portlandia’.
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren’t this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who’s rippled with muscles.
Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.
Most of us tend toward muscular imbalance. Typically our chest and front shoulder muscles are stronger than our upper back and rear shoulder muscles. As a result, our chins jut out, our shoulders round, and our backs sway.
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing – building more muscle!
As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.
‘Metals’ has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I’m growing the muscles I want to grow again.
Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
‘Tis done–And in the after-vacancy,
We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
‘Tis done–And in the after-vacancy,
We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I’m enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.
I do a lot of things because if you do just one thing… like, if you run too much, everything just gets loose. You lose weight, but you get loose, and you want to be strong, have muscles.
I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don’t need to show muscle for that.
I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere’s Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.
Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I’m on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.
When you’re an actress you’ve got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles.
He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.
Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it’s the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.
If you want to “tone and build,” it is time to pick up some iron – that’s the way we can get a muscle to grow.
I love team sports – they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can’t breathe or my muscles are aching.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes – just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids’ dances. They were called “lead outs” for kids in high school. We played wherever we could – in the down time when you weren’t recording, people had to make money.
You think of She-Hulk and muscles and stuff, but the person who’s behind it is just such a cool character.
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.
Dance … is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
Take care of your muscles and they’ll hold up.
I’m 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
The most important day in any running program is rest. Rest days give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Your muscles build in strength as you rest.
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I’m training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.
There are a lot of different beliefs for tightening up your core. I think just being conscious of it and being aware to engage your muscles will help any woman’s tummy get in shape.
All my muscles are in my face. I have a very muscular face. I’m good with faces. I always have been.
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It’s like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
Normally, after a movie, you know, you don’t want to get up and do another one right away. That kind of pretend muscle or whatever you use making movies is kind of, you know, spent. And you have other things to do.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.
What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They’re like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don’t think of as malleable.
I never focus on contraction. I’m focusing on my muscle. I’m not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I’m just trying to get the weight up. I’m trying to build muscle.
If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other’s oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.
Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.
I’d proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.
It’s rare that I’m not at work on some sort of craft project. I’ve often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles – physical, intellectual, spiritual – that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.
But you can’t muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.
The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous … strain on the muscles and tendons.
Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin peeling away. Grace. My bones squeezed, pinched, pressed against my muscles. Grace. Her eyes held me even after I stopped feeling her fingers gripping my arms. Sam,” she said. “Don’t go.
All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don’t have to act it as much, once you’ve done it enough.
Botox, trust me I’ve been tempted – but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles – and your skin – if you’re sick and don’t move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.
It really helps if you’ve got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.
Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.
Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.
What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.
I tried to tell you. You said you didn’t care, remember?” A muscle ticked below his eye. “You should have told me anyway.” “While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I’m Disease, not Stupid.
Nancy’s got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles
can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train
the mind to think.
can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train
the mind to think.
The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].
You can muscle your way to the top as long as you’re part of the production, which I am. I’m knitted into the money, so it’s very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn’t do in a normal circumstance.
Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.
