Charles Atlas Quotes

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Charles Atlas

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• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Laws
  • Thinks
  • Who

• I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Hate

• That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Great
  • Want
  • Rock

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Long
  • Never

• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Period
  • Painting

• You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Carpenter
  • Mentioned

• The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Best
  • Always
  • Never

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Energy
  • Now
  • Fast

• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sports
  • Learn
  • Win

• I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Best
  • Struggle

• I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Fighting
  • Thrive

• I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Think
  • Study
  • Start

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mistake

• Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• The thing that concerns me more than anything is when anybody becomes closed off and exclusive of other people's ideas. All of our brains are in the same mode of searching when trying to understand reality, and when we come to a belief system that makes sense to us we hold it strongly, whether it's an atheist view, or a Christian view, or a Muslim view, whatever, then it's very hard to let go and I think it's so important to try to foster dialogue.

  

  Andrew B. Newberg
  • Reality
  • Ideas
  • Brain

• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Admiration
  • Wins
  • Fisherman

• When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on until reaching a natural break. If you just stop while you know what you're going to write next, it's easier to get going again the next day.

  

  Neal Asher
  • Words
  • Stop

• My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

  

  Charles Atlas