Quotes About Movement

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

She began to move, closing her eyes and letting the music roll through her. Since childhood Izzie had had an affinity for music—all types of music. It had always made her want to move. To sway or to spin, to leap or to bend. She just had a dancing gene that demanded release whenever the right beat hit her ears and rolled on down through her body.

He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.

Any movement toward solution gathers energy; any movement away from solution depletes energy. Act accordingly.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

no political or religious movement is a perfect expression of that movement's 'essence' as laid down in its sacred writings

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

Sometimes you just have to do things

Volevo il movimento, non un'esistenza quieta. Volevo l'emozione, il pericolo, la possibilità di sacrificare qualcosa al mio amore. Avvertivo dentro di me una sovrabbondanza di energia che non trovava sfogo in una vita tranquilla

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

The only cure for grief is action.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

And thick and fast they came at last,And more, and more, and more—All hopping through the frothy waves,And scrambling to the shore.

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Some players tell me that since retiring they've had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

My own preferred fitness regime is to use my bicycle.