Exertion Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image “Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exertion Meaningless Persons
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Inaction is a luxury, one that many take for granted (and take pills to deal with). Action comes from hardship and necessity, physical or… — Kyle Eschenroeder Copy Share Image
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“for as they who use no bodily exercises are awkward and unwieldy in the actions of the body, so they who exercise not their… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
