Physical Quotes - page 13

Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now,” and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The power of our intention and the energy it unleashes are dependent on our levels of coherence and intensity. The affirmation of our positive intentions in thought, feeling and action increases the power of our abilities. Nonetheless, it is important to appreciate that the matrix of physical, emotional, and mental levels of consciousness through which our personal and collective intentions and choices are explored and experienced require a "health warning” on interpreting the Law of Attraction too simplistically. View quote
Ervin László
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself. View quote
John F. Kennedy
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy? View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches. View quote
Aldo Leopold
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. View quote
Paul
One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something. View quote
Michael Shannon
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. (Mark Haddon)
I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people. View quote
Norman Wisdom
Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time. View quote
Novak Djokovic
And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos. View quote
Owen Gingerich
When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. View quote
Placido Domingo
The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow. View quote
Paul Zane Pilzer
Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on. View quote
Rick Riordan
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical. (Andrew Pyper)
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks. View quote
Andrew Weil
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks. View quote
Andrew Weil
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts. View quote
Andrew Weil
Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted. View quote
Robert James Waller