If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. — Cate Blanchett 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
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams 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
“We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind. — Zhuangzi 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
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
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment,… — Jeffrey Tate 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
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
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc… — Dave Bidini Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so… — Lena Dunham 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
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
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
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
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment... — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment. — Stewart Udall 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
