#muscle

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#achieve #achievement #course #desires #develop

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. ↗

— Peter Davison

#awful #because #i #i think #knows

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hard #hard times #muscles #need #oppression

The mind is just another muscle. ↗

— Ted Turner

#just #mind #muscle

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too. ↗

— Dick York

#go #i #into #involved #least

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#danced #growing #growing up #had #high

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#athlete #barriers #competitive #crash #demands

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#exercise #fearlessness #fears #i #know

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#doing #exercise #four #groups #i

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#dancers #fat #heavier #lean #might