#exercise

I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humor #nature #humor

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all. ↗

— George Lopez

#afraid #break #carlin #comedy #down

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#before #breakfast #day #discard #every

I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#cardiovascular #caribbean #classes #cycling #discipline

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #always #certain #confused #emotional

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#i #i do #like #me #numbers

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#club #did #exercise #god #intend

We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise. ↗

— Nancy O'Dell

#day #every #every day #exercise #figured

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#exercise #friends #i #only #take

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#good #hard #i #just #make