Posture Quotes

184 quotes by 157 authors

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren G. Bennis
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
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
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — Germaine Greer
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
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
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
I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable! — Helen Slater
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
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
When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise — Robert Genn
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
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
I don't mind wearing a corset; it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch. — Michelle Dockery
By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit. — Bruce Lee
One of the things that has changed my lifeâ€”and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personalityâ€”is meditating. The simple act… — Sheryl Crow

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