Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.

I like to get up early in the morning and run.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever work I've done in terms of preparation or research or thinking about the scene or the character, it all kind of crystallizes in that moment in the morning. And sometimes I have the best ideas then.

Even today, in retirement, I find it very distracting if there is conversation during a run. I work out as much for my head as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas come to me more easily when I am running. That is why I like to run in the morning.

In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train - I do about three hours in the gym...

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

I'm pretty normal. Tthe type of day I love is just like everybody else's. I'm like everybody else.

No matter where my travels take me, my day starts with a good work out, preferably kitesurfing or tennis. Exercise puts me in the right state of mind for the day. Dedicating time in the morning to exercise your body will make a big difference when you have to focus your mind on the day's work.

I never thought in a million years, I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights