Quotes with relax

  • That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
  • You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
  • It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
  • We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
  • The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Art raises its head where creeds relax.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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  • Arthur Godfrey He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Bette Davis I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
    Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Stirling Moss It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
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  • Samuel Johnson Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Honore Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Ben Hogan Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Don DeLillo That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
    White Noise (2011) 276
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Aaron Siskind We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
    Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)
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  • Chuck Palahniuk We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.
    Interview the Guardian (24-03-2004)
    Chuck Palahniuk
    American novelist and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Carmen Marton When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.
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