Ida P Rolf Quotes & Sayings

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep. — Ida Rolf

Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity. — Ida Rolf

In a world that was not easy for Alice to bear or understand, flies were the final and malicious burden laid upon her. — John Steinbeck

You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do. — Diane Kruger

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. — Ida Pauline Rolf

Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being. — Ida Rolf

Appreciate what they can give, forgive them for what they cannot. — Elizabeth Isaacs

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself. — Merle Shain

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself — Ida Rolf

In life, I have learnt that the more I learnt about life, the sadder I became and the sadder I became the desire to learn about life increased. — Manoj Vaz

Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs. — Ida Rolf

I knew everything a woman hated even before I remotely knew anything a woman liked. — Nick Zano

You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself. — Ida Rolf

Located two ribs below the heart, it is called hate. — Ibi Kaslik

Professionals never guess - they make it their business to know their business. — Michelle Moore

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later. — Ida Rolf

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease. — Ida Rolf

I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum. — Kobe Bryant

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating. — Ruth Reichl

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. — Ida Pauline Rolf

A novel ... is a golden kettle into which you pour all of experience ... You can toss in great chunks of meat and fragrant bones and stock left over from the meals before. You can add fragments of character or the whole man. You can have scenes that fill a quarter of the book and others that flash by in a fleeting glance. In a novel there's nothing you can't do, if you do it with passion. — James A. Michener

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything. — Whitey Ford

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others. — Paul Di Filippo

A hundred-eighty pounds of dead weight - all muscle - to — J.D. Robb

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath — Ida Rolf