Exertion/physical

Famous quotes containing the words exertion and/or physical:

“From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)