Exercise Quotes

• Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Exercise

• That's what got me into exercise and training my body and my voice. I looked at Madonna as this G.I. Jane superstar. I used to go jogging around my neighborhood at midnight sometimes and I'd be thinking, it'll all be worth it one day.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Thinking
  • Training
  • One Day

• The importance of human judgment does not evaporate in the future, and as connected individuals, we will have to exercise sound judgment about what we choose to share or not share about ourselves.

  

  Jared Cohen
  • Future
  • Exercise

• When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Political
  • Politics

• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Exercise
  • Labor
  • Fitness

• Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Science

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• I exercise a lot. I try to stay healthy.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • Exercise

• With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Brain
  • Exercise

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Help

• I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Imagination
  • Sad
  • Appearance

• I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body.

  

  Christine Lakin
  • Life
  • Up
  • College

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

  

  Epicurus
  • Present
  • Exercise

• It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

  

  JoJo
  • Fall
  • Exercise
  • Chocolate

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Diet

• I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • World
  • Art
  • Exercise

• I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Health
  • Mental Health

• Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

  

  John Keegan
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

  

  Claudio Hummes
  • Power
  • History
  • Society

• I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Strength

• I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Able

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