Postures Quotes

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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
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. — Oscar Wilde
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — Germaine Greer
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
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards.… — Jonathan Lethem
A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's image was laboured… — Alison Kitson
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept… — George Gerbner
One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to… — Joe Haldeman
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. — B.K.S. Iyengar
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
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
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 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
Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves… — Ben Lerner
Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several… — Leslie Jamison
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of… — David Hume
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in… — John Singer Sargent
Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor,… — Ina May Gaskin

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