Posture Quotes
184 quotes by 158 authors
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
— Warren G. Bennis
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
— Ambrose Bierce
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No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that…
— Paulo Freire
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
— Oscar Wilde
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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to…
— Samuel Johnson
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The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation.…
— Rajneesh
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I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and…
— Barack Obama
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
— Germaine Greer
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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live…
— Faith Baldwin
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces…
— Ann Voskamp
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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a…
— Desmond Morris
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I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!
— Helen Slater
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One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic…
— Vartan Gregorian
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America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a…
— James Madison
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When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
— Robert Genn
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature.…
— Winston Churchill
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I don't mind wearing a corset; it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
— Michelle Dockery
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By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.
— Bruce Lee
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One of the things that has changed my life—and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality—is meditating. The simple act…
— Sheryl Crow
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