Quotes About Movement

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Bistromathics is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behaviour of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute and depended on the observer's movement in space... so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.

I felt like I was walking on an airport's rubber conveyor belt.

How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.

Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

It's the way spirit moves in the world of time and space. That's what a human body-mind is: an extension of spirit in time and space.

If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.

And has it ever occurred to you, Miss Griffith, that you would probably not be able to take a good express train to London if little Georgie Stephenson had been out with his youth movement instead of lolling about, bored, in his mother's kitchen until the curious behaviour of the kettle lid attracted the attention of his idle mind?

Aprendí que no se puede dar marcha atrás, que la esencia de la vida es ir hacia adelante. La vida, en realidad, es una calle de sentido único.

Once people have got a moty car, blessed if they can stay still anywheres

La vida, como el tren, hija mía sigue adelante! ¡Y es una suerte que sea así-

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Dance in the body you have.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

Action is the crux to which all change is possible making any goal achievable

The more resistant we are to the oncoming chaos, the more we will be stuck in a constant struggle and are unable to move forward. One must embrace the chaos in open arms and once the self-destruction ensues, then self-development can follow. One can't get upset at the dying fields when he is constantly warring with the rain clouds

It's neither Marxism nor Communism I repudiate; the use certain people have made of Marxism and Communism is what I condemn. What I want is that Marxism and Communism be harnessed into the service of coloured peoples, and not coloured people into the service of Marxism and Communism. That the doctrine and the movement be tailored to fit men, not men to fit the movement. And - of course - that goes for others besides Communists.

You cannot step into the same river twice. Maybe that's because rivers, like people, are constantly changing

the urgency of leaders, especially old-school leaders born in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, to respect young leaders and the strategic ways they show up for the fight.

As the winds of the Great Depression blew across a Japan shaken to the very foundations of her economy, proletarian movements sprang up everywhere, including the field of fine art. At the other extreme was an art movement that advocated escape from the painful realities of the hard times, something that was called, in a sort of pidgin, "eroguro nan-sensu" ("erotic-grotesque nonsense").

There were some excellent painters in this group, but in general, rather than an artistic movement with its roots in the essentials of painting, it was a practice of putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas—a "leftist tendency" movement, as not only paintings but films of this type came to be called.

For me to try to analyze and explain Japanese society from that point of view was therefore impossible. I simply felt the vague dissatisfactions and dislikes that Japanese society encouraged, and in order to contend with these feelings, I had joined the most radical movement I could find. Looking back on it now, my behavior seems terribly frivolous and reckless.