Exercise Quotes

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.

The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I hate exercise.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

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

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.