Vinoba Bhave Quotes

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

I typically do yoga and I walk everywhere, and that's how I get my exercise.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That's all I'm doing. I'm staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.

I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.

I can't listen to music while I'm doing something else. Well, unless I'm working out. But I, like, fall off the treadmill all the time if I'm listening to something that I like too much.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

I like talking and walking. It's more productive than doing just one.

Running is something that I have been doing from a long time, and hence, it is very important to me.

We have to play football, not concentrate on other things.

Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'

At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.

When I wake up in the morning, I just go.

Sometimes, things are just exercises.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

Habit is a form of exercise.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

What are you thinking? Nothing. I mean...a lot of things. Kind of all at once.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.