Quotes About Mobility

Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

Having my feet be as good as I want them to be can get me out of a lot of problems when I'm in the pocket and stuff starts to break down. There's rarely ever a perfect pocket.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

You have to stay active; it keeps the bones flexible.

The human foot has bones and muscles and can balance back and forth. If you step and you maybe make a little mistake, your foot can compensate. But if I step in the wrong spot, my foot isn't going to compensate because it's just one piece of carbon fiber.

The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.

the citizens of Ulysses cut the town's buildings into pieces and dragged them across the prairie to a new location, "leaving the bond-holders," as the 1939 WPA guide to the state puts it, "40 acres of bare ground on which to foreclose."9 The only social actor capable of that kind of defiance today is the corporation. Corporations are mobile; cities are not.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play. They want to be outside. So they're inherently more active than we are, because we get much lazier as we get older. Part of being a parent is keeping up with your kid.

Gaming notebooks aren't that abundant. Not that many gamers are able to play on notebooks.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

I travel so much that life has become a matter of honing things down to the barest essentials. Nowadays, I almost never go anywhere with anything more than hand luggage - and a laptop.

I mean you look at apps like Uber, Postmates, Instacart, things that have revolutionized how quickly we can do stuff. I can be on a flight and schedule groceries to be delivered to my house and a car to pick me up when I land. It is nuts. And it is something that I will always be interested in.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

We're Americans," said Ezekiel. "Nothing is close enough we don't need a car.

Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without principled opposition to xenophobias from above and below, these desperate channels will produce a cold-hearted and mean-spirited America no longer worth fighting for or living in.

Supermodernism. the fact that we don't build places just to live in anymore. We build places to go through. To wait in. To be transient [. . .] Supermodern spaces. Places to go through. And now look at this bloody city [Los Angeles]. Two hundred thousand fucking miles of road. Not even a city. A dozen towns stitched together by motorways.

We were born to move—not merely to be transported,

use, mixed income, density, and transit.

It was a Temple that could be hauled away in the night by anyone with a two-inch ball on his car bumper

My Feet they haul me Round the House, They Hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to Steer them, and They Ride me Everywhere!

Suburban life is merely motherhood on wheels.

Sitting kills, moving heals.