Top 59 Joseph Pilates Quotes
#1. Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished ...
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#2. Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.
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#3. Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.
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#5. I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.
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#6. Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.
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#7. With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?
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#8. By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?
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#10. Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.
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#11. The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.
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#12. The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.
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#14. Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
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#15. Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
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#16. Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.
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#17. If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.
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#18. You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.
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#19. Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.
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#20. The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.
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#21. As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.
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#22. Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.
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#25. Time and progress are synonymous terms
nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.
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#26. You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.
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#27. We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
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#28. Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health ... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion ...
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#29. A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.
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#30. Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.
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#31. Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.
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#32. Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.
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#33. It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.
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#34. Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.
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#36. Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.
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#37. When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.
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#38. By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.
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#40. The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
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#41. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
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#43. The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature
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#45. Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
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#46. Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.
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#48. Change happens through movement and movement heals.
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#49. True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed
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#50. Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.
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#51. Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].
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#52. I learned ... every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.
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#53. Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.
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#54. In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body
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#55. Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
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#56. The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors ...
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#57. Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.
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#58. To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.
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