Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. — Tom Platz Copy Share Image
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
“It made me wonder whether our ability and desire to interact with strangers is another muscle that risks atrophy in the smartphone… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart,… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle,… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If you can do everything in your job without struggling, not only will you get stuck in your slot but you’ll never… — Brian Wong Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death,… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
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