Motion Quotes

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

~ Fernando Pessoa

. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important.

~ Robert Penn Warren

There is a big difference between motion and action. Just because you get out of bed doesn't mean you are making progress. Taking action requires decisiveness, dedication, and clear direction.

~ Farshad Asl

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

~ Majid Kazmi

The way he moves-a singular motion with such ease-put me in awe. He takes down one, two and then three without even bending his back. Knocking down a man so gracefully was nothing I had ever seen before and this red dance drew me in as it did the others around him. He could have easily killed those men. This is a man who has control over himself. This is the kind of man I need.

~ Celia Mcmahon

Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..

~ Anonymous

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline, the less used to dialectical method you're likely to be. In fact, young children are very dialectical; they see everything in motion, in contradictions and transformations. We have to put an immense effort into training kids out of being good dialecticians. Marx wants to recover the intuitive power of the dialectical method and put it to work in understanding how everything is in process, everything is in motion. He doesn't simply talk about labor; he talks about the labor process. Capital is not a thing, but rather a process that exists only in motion. When circulation stops, value disappears and the whole system comes tumbling down.

~ David Harvey

Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.

~ Herbert Spencer

Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

~ George Gabriel Stokes

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

~ James Prescott Joule

Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.

~ Joe Plumeri

All around us, Karachi kept moving

~ Kamila Shamsie

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

~ Tim Fargo

Life is in infinite motion, at the same time it is motionless.

~ Debasish Mridha

But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we ourselves and all our thoughts are also a part of nature. It is utterly beyond our power to measure the changes of things by time. Quite the contrary, time is an abstraction, at which we arrive by means of the change of things; made because we are not restricted to any one definite measure, all being interconnected. A motion is termed uniform in which equal increments of space described correspond to equal increments of space described by some motion with which we form a comparison, as the rotation of the earth. A motion may, with respect to another motion, be uniform. But the question whether a motion is in itself uniform, is senseless. With just as little justice, also, may we speak of an “absolute time” --- of a time independent of change. This absolute time can be measured by comparison with no motion; it has therefore neither a practical nor a scientific value; and no one is justified in saying that he knows aught about it. It is an idle metaphysical conception.

~ Ernst Mach

If there ever were one moment where everything worked for us, where we lived in harmony and at ease with our natures, then we would still be there. There is no garden to return to, no idyllic perfect childhood, no enwombed state. The Garden of Eden was boring, childhood is a nightmare we should all be grateful to be done with, and your mother smoked while she was pregnant and poisoned you in the womb with artificial sugar substitutes. The best thing any of us can do is just to keep fucking up in a forward motion, and see what comes out of it.

~ Jessa Crispin

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.

~ John Swartzwelder

We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle.

~ Santosh Kalwar

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

~ Robert E. Lee

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.

~ William Faulkner

Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

~ Ken Poirot

God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.

~ Isaac Newton

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

~ Roger Corman

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

~ Steve Erickson

Never mistake motion for action.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The most challenging roles were Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Mars Needs Moms' because they were both motion capture, so there was a lot of physical work involved.

~ Raymond Ochoa

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

~ Nikola Tesla

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

~ Antoine Lavoisier

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

~ William Shakespeare

The drive for happiness is vital it's what keeps us in motion.

~ Richard Gere

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

~ Khalil Gibran

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

~ Andrew Wyeth

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

~ Mark Rydell

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

~ Joe Dimaggio

Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

~ Wale

Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.

~ Charles Platt