Quotes About Motor

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

The quickest way to improve the self-esteem of everyone in America would be to hire professional photographers to work at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Parkinson's is as much about cognitive problems as it is about physical ones. The motor effects usually become evident before the mental effects, which is part of why movement issues get more attention.

One of a line of self-declared motor chauvinists, he boasts a lineage that includes the Nobel laureates Sir Charles Sherrington, who wrote, "Life's aim is an act, not a thought," and Roger Sperry, who encouraged us "to view the brain objectively for what it is, namely, a mechanism for governing motor activity."32 After all, it is action, not cogitation, that puts food on the table and a bun in the oven. Action allowed our ancestors to survive and reproduce.

If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice, by showing up, we are signaling that deep motor, that hum of life, that we are ready: Help us. Pay attention and lead us out of our confusion.

2. A brain cannot think without motor function. Wrote Feldenkrais, "My fundamental contention is that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality, that these entities are not related to each other in one fashion or another, but are an inseparable whole. To put this more clearly: I contend that a brain could not think without motor functions.