Joseph Pilates Quotes

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

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• What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Want
  • Government

• I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Down
  • Kid
  • WIld

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Awesome
  • Superhero

• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Fiction
  • Short
  • Experiments

• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Government
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Think
  • Question

• Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • People
  • Today
  • Strong

• Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Care
  • Body
  • Married

• The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Action

• The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.

  

  Sam Harris
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Country

• I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Crazy

• The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Real
  • Star

• I hate to be general, but I rely on Andrew Keenan-Bolger for all things music. Every season, he releases a mixtape on his blog of the most incredible and current music. I download it instantly, and it gets me through the season and keeps me educated musically.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Music
  • Hate

• I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.

  

  Lisa Kleypas
  • People
  • Women
  • Career

• I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life...

  

  John Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mother
  • Thoughts
  • Body

• If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

  

  John Niven
  • Together
  • Help
  • Food

• Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

  

  Joseph Pilates
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Body