physical intuition Quotes

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

In order to trust your body as a guide, the first step is to begin to understand it.

My body knows my limits.

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not.

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?

Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

I've always had a great feel for space and how objects occupy it.

I've learned to listen to what's going on with my body.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.

This fan thing doesn't really have any effect on my career goals. You know, I'll still be training fighters and haven't made any career plans yet. Just like I hadn't made any career plans before I fought Maccarinelli. I'll see how it goes, see how I feel. I always listen to my body.

I love thinking about mechanics and having your mind agree with the mechanics. Sometimes you can shoot it correctly, but your mind doesn't think that it's right. So it's like, how do you get your mind to trust that that's the right way to shoot it.

I'm really in tune with my body and what it needs.

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.