I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto, huge city, massive buildings just stretching so tall.
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
Topologists are not concerned with angles and lengths, which are clearly altered by stretching the rubber sheet, but they do care about more fundamental properties.
I don't have a trainer. Crazy, right? But I don't need anyone to motivate me. I love exercise, even things like the elliptical and stretching.
Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.
Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.
I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Twists are wonderful for whittling your waist, stretching your back, and detoxifying the body.
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.
I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.
If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.
I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.
It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.
For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
The key to building long muscle as you swim is stretching arms far ahead of you in the water, sort of like a swan.
Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.
Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below
Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.
Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.
Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye
I'm doing extra stretching and more leaps and turns. Working on toe points. I'm working hard on it.
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
I like to look after myself, so that's stretching or ice baths, and as soon as I get home, I just sleep anyway; it's all part of recovery.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'
When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.
Stretching exercises in the morning for face & body or my body feels heavy and I can't do anything else.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.
I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.
I actually find stretching so therapeutic. Sundays are my cardio and core days and I always have 15 mins stretch before.
I don't really like doing a lot of stretching anyway. I'd much rather bowl than sit and do the warm-ups.
I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.
As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly...
Where be bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me!
I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.
The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.
There is value in finding a combination of internal people, stretching them and seeing their potential, then marrying that with someone from the outside.
In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.
Whether it's in the weight room or extra stretching, you never know when you're going to need that little extra oomph.
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