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  • As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

    Space   Dancer   Brain  
  • There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T. 'Can't' can be the result of lacking physical ability, but 'won't' has more to do with attitude.

  • It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

    Art   School   Korea  
    "Chuck Norris: Against All Odds". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
  • Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

    "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 48, 1969.
  • Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

    Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult
  • As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

    Strong   Exercise   Men  
    1841 Of detective work.'TheMurders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.
  • I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

    Hard Work   Way   Ability  
  • What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.

    Kids   Years   Brain  
    Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.145, Penguin
  • Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

    Science   Hands   Use  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!

  • Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation
  • When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology. The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

    Real   Fall   Ideas  
  • Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work.

    Sports   Science   Skills  
  • A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

    Baseball   Men   Swings  
  • I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

  • Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

  • Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

  • My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

    Mother   Doctors   Dying  
    "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
  • When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

  • I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

    Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
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