Contrology Pilates Quotes

#1. 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].

Joseph Pilates

#2. The greatest riddle of all ... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!

Adriana Koulias

#3. We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.

Dean Koontz

#4. I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

Winston Churchill

#5. To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

David Nasaw

#6. 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.

Joseph Pilates

#7. If I've learned one thing in the last few days it is that every question does not need to be answered. A story is not true just because of it's literal veracity. It is the message, what it teaches, that counts.

Joseph Bruchac

#8. I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. It takes over - fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

Brian Doyle

#11. There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

Connie Willis

#12. God can't force his children to become like him. It's something they have to want, a blessing they have to fight for and be willing to sacrifice to attain.

Chris Stewart

#13. Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

Joseph Pilates

#14. Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you've got - to just live life.

Douglas Preston

#15. If I'm super woman, then he would be my kryptonite.

Kenya Wright

#16. What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

Norman Cousins

#17. Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Howard Schultz

#18. Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

Joseph Pilates

#19. 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.

Joseph Pilates