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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day. -- Karen Duffy
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. -- Cate Blanchett
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. -- John Lahr
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. -- Martha Gellhorn
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. -- Eli Roth
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. -- Ezra Pound
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. -- Victor Hugo
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. -- Jack LaLanne
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy. -- Jeffrey Tate
By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy. -- Jane Green
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem. -- Rhianna Pratchett
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. -- Terry Pratchett
The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse. -- Iris Apfel
atrophy of feeling creates criminals. -- Anais Nin
Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. -- Tom Platz
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment... -- Norman Doidge
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind. -- Zhuangzi
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers -- Maynard James Keenan
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment. -- Stewart Udall
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. -- E. Stanley Jones
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. -- John Adams
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. -- John Lahr
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. -- Thomas Carlyle
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity. -- Norman Doidge M.D.
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . . -- John Kenneth Galbraith
My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy. -- George A. Romero
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me! -- Bill Hybels
Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted]. -- Christopher Hitchens
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy. -- John Howe
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation. -- Tom Robbins
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision. -- Dave Bidini
I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy. -- Tariq Ali

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