William Meade famous quotes

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
-- William Meade

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I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.