The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B. S. )
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!
The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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.
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.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. . . poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
ability atrophies through lack of exercise.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.
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. . .
Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
