I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.
I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to dovetail our technologies - our brains to our tools. With the Industrial Revolution, we transcended the limits of our muscles. With the digital revolution, we transcend the limits of our minds.
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles. . . are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
I don't need to worry about that, that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. . . . If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.
I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?
Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled.
I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.
Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.
Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries.
Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.
The only way to isolate specific back muscles - whether it is upper. or lower back - or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection.
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. . . As for me, give me a fixed gear!
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Muscle is good, but craft is better
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.