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How do I stay balanced? On my two feet.
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.
He who limps is still walking.
When there is really nothing left to do or believe, except to remember, walking helps retrieve the absolute simplicity of presence, beyond all hope, before any expectation.
Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!
By a sizable margin, walking, especially when the athletes landed first with their heels, was the most economical way for human beings to move.
If you're a model, you're supposed to know how to walk, aren't you?
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.
It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.
I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.
Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.
What was wrong with a good German stride?
I can walk... see."
I made my legs walk.
"What are you doing?"
"Vertical walkin'."
Alec laughed. "Pitch Perfect?"
"Amazin' film.
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.
The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.
Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.
The heel of Achilles
Where the legs have gone the hind legs must follow
My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
This Giant had some sort of magic in his legs.
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.
There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.
Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk.
I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.
And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
Yes, Miss Masters, but walking is also a way to announce who you are." Gideon waved one arm impassionedly. "How you view yourself in the world. The way you hold yourself, the way you move, how you occupy a space, tells other people a good deal about you," ~from To Love a Thief
Go Go Gadget Leg!
Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.
Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile
When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.
Jumping up and down like a Mexican jumping bean on crack.
Body weight is the enemy of running performance. Running is, after all, a continuous fight against gravity. With every stride you take your body must be lifted completely off the ground, because all of the progress you make when running is made while your body is airborne. What's
I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.
If you fall down, get up and walk again.
If you can't walk, crawl.
If that idea fails, have another one
It doesn't happen by accident.
It takes a lot of hard work.
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Stop thinking for a while, then you will start thinking better; stop walking for a while, then you will start walking better! Apply the break and stop, then you shall move better!
When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.
Down, everybody! Down on all fours! We're going to show you our new step! Like this: just swing your up and -
Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully!
Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
My feet is my only carriage.
There's nothing in the mechanical world that matches the sophistication, complexity, and multi-tasking ability of the foot
If the other shoe drops, run barefoot!
( ... ) it's not easy to run in heels. Fashion over function ( ... )
But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen.
Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.
One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.
All feete tread not in one shoe.
He that stumbles, and does not quite fall, gains a step.
Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.
One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking.
Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
If one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.
As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.
When walking, walk. When eating, eat.
I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Just because I have shoes on is no sign that I am walking.
Do you have some sort of walking disorder? One foot in front of the other. It's real simple.
Walking is the speed we were created to use when travelling through life.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren't things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched.
I didn't bother to put shoes on. Finger-combing
In the almost film-like flitting-by of modern life, a man needs something to tell him, from time to time, that he is still himself, and nothing can give him this assurance in so comforting a manner as the "four feet trotting behind".
In standard American English, the word with the most gradations of meaning is probably run. The Random House unabridged dictionary offers one hundred and seventy-eight options, beginning with "to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk" and ending with "melted or liquefied." In
When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.
He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps.
There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
The thing that seems most natural to me-most human-is movement.
Baby Feet (Again) Jimmy
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way
Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.
Walking is the desire for life.
Tis in our power
(unless we fear that apes can tutor's) to
Be masters of our manners. What need I
Affect another's gait, which is not catching
Where there is faith, or to be found upon
Another's way of speech, when by mine own
I may be reasonably conceived
Their bodies are tall and skinny, but their legs are huge. Their knees allow them to walk backward. We call them the backward-walking people. They have strange heads. When they are walking, their heads flip backward so they can see where they are going.
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
For it is not requisite that a woman should hobble faster than she has strength!
When our feet talk to us, we listen.
It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place
I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch, - This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.