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We've found 40 quotes for 'commencement exercise' (0.131 seconds):



"exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly." »James Rippe 
"I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake 
"commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information." »W, Willard Wirtz 
"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting." »Mark Twain 
"Let each man exercise the art he knows." »Aristophanes 
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." »Sigmund Freud 
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." »Sir Richard Steele 
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far." »Thomas Jefferson 
"Dig where the gold isunless you just need some exercise." »John M. Capozzi 
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." »John Andrew Holmes 
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." »Oscar Wilde 
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." »Thomas Jefferson 
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence." »Titus Livius 
"Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving." »Michael J. Gelb 
"Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it." »John Calhoun 
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." »Jacques Martin Barzun 
"Walking is the world's oldest exercise and todays modern medicine" »Johnny Wowk 
"The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." »Carl Barzun 
"When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them" »Wystan Hugh Auden 
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." »Thomas Jefferson 
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." »W. Somerset Maugham 
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power." »William Henry Harrison 
"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young." »Ursula K. LeGuin 
"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men." »Marcus Valerius Martialis 
"The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White 
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." »Konrad Lorenz 
"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love." »M Scott Peck 
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." »Plato 
"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love." »Karl von Bonstetten 
"What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too." »Norman Cousins 
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