When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
Your best posture is your next posture. — Morgan Freeman
Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced. — Gichin Funakoshi
The general trend is that people who frequently carry heavy loads and do other 'back-breaking' work get fewer back injuries than those who sit in chairs for hours bent over a machine. — Daniel Lieberman
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. — Chinese Proverbs
Primal Essential Movements – four of the most simple and effective exercises ever known to humankind: pushups, pullups, squats, and planks. — Mark Sisson
Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi. — Bikram Choudhury
He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm. — Lao Tzu
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends. — B.K.S. Iyengar
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. — Oscar Wilde
There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy. — Mark Rippetoe
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. — Millard Fillmore
There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. — Lee Trevino
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. — Loretta Young
Short Prone Quotes
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes. — John Legend
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it. — George Washington
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. — Publilius Syrus
My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone. — Mickey Rivers
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. — Ovid
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. — Thomas Fuller
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore de Balzac
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand. — Charles Spurgeon
Most people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones. — Rick Joyner
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! — Alexander Pope
Prone Image Quotes
Accident Prone Quotes
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. — Andrew Sullivan
I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I`m terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think people aim for me. — Robert Pattinson
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. — Mignon McLaughlin
Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone. — Paul Budnitz
I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone. — Peta Wilson
I know I get cold, cause I can't leave things well alone. Understand I'm accident prone. Me, I get free every night the moon is mine. But when the morning comes don't say you love me, don't say you need me. I really don't think that's fair. — Natalie Imbruglia
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Why Be Mean Quotes
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional. — Richard M. Nixon
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. — Alexander Calder
When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story. — Roger Deakins
Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life? — Peter Wessel Zapffe
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy. — Martin Heidegger
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery. — Charles M. Schulz
That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you are and maybe who you want to be. — Michael Oher
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. — Carlos Fuentes
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. — Edward R. Murrow
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. — Nikola Tesla
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. — Robert A. Johnson
We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters. — E. O. Wilson
Going too fast is one of the mistakes all negotiators are prone to making. If we’re too much in a hurry, people can feel as if they’re not being heard. — Chris Voss
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. — E. T. A. Hoffmann
Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit. — Martin Zwilling
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky — John Grogan
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth! — Homer
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. — Daniel Kahneman
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. — Malcolm Muggeridge
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations. — Ruby Dee
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. — John Calvin
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. — Eric Hoffer
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen. — Bobby Knight
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide. — Matthieu Ricard
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. — Abraham Lincoln
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets. — Stephen King
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance. — Bo Jackson
Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone. — Jakob Nielsen
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. — George Washington
Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically. — Edgar Schein
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage. — Jonathan Franzen
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. — Juvenal
In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is the reason that a man comes to think of that which otherwise he should never have called to mind? The Holy Spirit brings it to his remembrance; He is a Comforter, bringing to mind useful things at such times when we have most need of them. — Richard Sibbes
Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music. — Lana Del Rey
We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts. — Vance Havner
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. — David Sarnoff
I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements. — Nelson Mandela
It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body. — Sathya Sai Baba
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. — Francis Bacon
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness. — Norman Cousins
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch. — Marco Rubio
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions. — Sonja Lyubomirsky
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