Posture Quotes

184 quotes by 158 authors

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in… — Warren G. Bennis
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates Â the spirit. — Joseph Pilates
I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and… — Jock Sturges
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that… — Lee Kuan Yew
Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that… — J. D. Greear
I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me,… — David Livingstone
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets… — Harlan Cleveland
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own… — Murray Rothbard
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… — J. G. Ballard
Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because… — Ernie Els
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. — Ambrose Bierce
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination… — Kenny Smith
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes… — Morihei Ueshiba
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. — Jules Feiffer
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and… — Peter Medawar
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry… — Randy Harrison
We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned… — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense. — Edward Rutledge

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