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Exercise Quotes


"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."


"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging."


"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."


"Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that."


"For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar."


"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."


"Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK."


"A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners."


"The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions."


"The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products."


"They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option."


"Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery."


"It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play."


"Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last."


"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."


"If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick."


"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."


"Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls."


"With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do."


"Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication."


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


"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."


"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse."


"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."


"It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise."


"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise."
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