Atrophy Quotes

42 Atrophy quotes by 37 unique authors

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of… — Thomas A. Edison
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith… — John Howe
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry… — Ezra Pound
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment... — Norman Doidge
The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if… — Steve Pavlina
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows… — Alexander Graham Bell
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity,… — Robert Anton Wilson
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting… — Coleman Dowell
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. — Tom Platz
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle
My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to… — George A. Romero
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the… — Renzo Novatore
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a… — Unknown Author
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment. — Stewart Udall
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. — Martha Gellhorn
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… — Dag Hammarskjold
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child… — Victor Hugo
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can… — Jeffrey Kluger
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength,… — Jack LaLanne
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. — Ezra Pound

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