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Quotes About Movement

Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: 1. A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build 2. A connection between and among the leader and the tribe 3. Something to do—the fewer limits, the better Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.
~ Seth Godin
Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.
~ Seth Godin
Some tribes are stuck. They embrace the status quo and drown out any tribe member who dares to question authority and the accepted order. Big charities, tiny clubs, struggling corporations—they're tribes and they're stuck. I'm not so interested in those tribes. They create little of value and they're sort of boring. Every one of those tribes, though, is a movement waiting to happen, a group of people just waiting to be energized and transformed.
~ Seth Godin
Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: 1. A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build 2. A connection between and among the leader and the tribe 3. Something to do—the fewer limits, the better
~ Seth Godin
today the earth spins on and still carries you with it. Today you will survive.
~ Shana Abé
I didn't have to go. I could fade into the crowd, be pushed along through the tunnel, into the city. I could roll along in my bubble ball. I was used to moving, used to packing up and following along like a robot, but I was tired of it. I wanted to stop moving and I wanted to be somewhere and stay somewhere and I wanted my family.
~ Sharon Creech
Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
~ Sharon Salzberg
too. He shoved me to get me going and we started to walk. My mind was
~ Shelley Singer
When a response is detected, the thing that uttered moves separately but implacably toward its responder, as by gravity. So equivalence is drawn to equivalence until they are within touching distance.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
But, no matter what they do, keep walking keep moving. And don't wear a watch. Hell, Indians never need to wear a watch because your skeletons will always remind you about the time. See, it is always now. That's what Indian time is. The past, the future, all of it is wrapped up in the now. That's how it is. We are trapped in the now.
~ Sherman Alexie
Be Still, be still, she would say between her teeth, but Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.
~ Sherman Alexie
You would give John Travolta a run for his money. (Tory) Yeah, and I'm sorry about my clothes. I tried, but I just couldn't bring myself to wear that. Hell, I couldn't do the disco look even when it was popular. I swear I'm allergic to polyester. Thank God for the punk movement. Otherwise I'd have been naked for a decade. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I'm not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There's the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.
~ Conor Oberst
I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.
~ Dawn Angelique
Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.
~ Denise Levertov
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.
~ Emma Donoghue
It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.
~ Eric Hoffer
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.
~ Fernando Pessoa
That's is life. You move and change according to things that happen to you and things that you make happen because of poor choices.
~ Michelle Singletary
In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
~ Molly Shannon