John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man."
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Lee Haney
Bodybuilder
"The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero"
Mod Sun
Musician
"The mind is stronger than any muscle."
Jaden Smith
Actor
"Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically."
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"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'."
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"Failure builds muscle, determination, and dreams."
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"Muscle and water is critical in burning fat."
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"The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own"
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"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."
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"Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights."
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"Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion."
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"I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it."
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"Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy."
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"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."
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"Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics."
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"The c**k isn't a muscle so it doesn't grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure."
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"For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together."
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"Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent."
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"I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected."
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