Atrophies Quotes

#1. If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

Philippa Perry

#2. Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you.

Joe Navarro

#3. To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Irving R. Kaufman

#4. The mind grows only through use, and it atrophies through idleness.

Napoleon Hill

#5. Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

Eric Weiner

#6. As soon as the patient stops fighting his obsessions and instead tries to ridicule them by dealing with them in an ironic way - by applying paradoxical intention - the vicious circle is cut, the symptom diminishes and finally atrophies.

Viktor E. Frankl

#7. If we all get a trophy, the world atrophies.

John Lawson

#8. If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound

#9. The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Creativity is like a muscle; you must exercise it daily or it atrophies.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.

Clive Sinclair

#12. I don't have time to read," Warren announced loudly.
"I wasn't asking you," Sally said. "And anyone with any sense finds the time to read, or their brain
atrophies and their soul shrivels.

Anne Stuart

#13. If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has no material to work on, what becomes of personality? It shrinks, it atrophies, it dies.

L.P. Hartley

#14. Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

George Will

#15. Ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

Glenda Jackson

#16. Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

#17. Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Roger Von Oech

#18. Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

Salma Hayek

#19. I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

Brian Eno

#20. There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.

Jim Shaw

#21. Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

R.K. Narayan

#22. You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

Peer Steinbruck

#23. It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

Dalai Lama

#24. Everywhere I travel to, there is my home.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

Garrison Keillor

#26. The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

Lydia M. Child

#27. If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

Quentin Crisp

#28. To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Alexandre Dumas

#29. What is this thing you speak of, 'sleep'?

Jim Butcher

#30. I think having women behind the cameras is exciting - whether it's as a director or a writer or a producer - because it does feel like we're in the middle of this awakening of realizing that it's important for women to have a voice.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

#31. I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

James Thayer

#32. If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

Mikhail Bakunin

#33. Oh, it's so good

Jo Beverley