“The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.” DoneMomentsNextCreativeMovementPossibilityEssentialsAspectBasesFundamentalsExtraordinaryVideoAmazement Author:Bill Viola
“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.” PeopleNeedsHumansSocialJusticeBehindsCasesEconomicMovementBecomingCivilizationConflictEssentialsSocial JusticeMental HealthEnvironmentalLeavingFavorsSustainabilityStableVersusProsperousJoiningHuman CivilizationEnvironmental Health Author:Edward Norton
“In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.” KnowsKindMayHandsMightFormOrderIndividualWatchesInformationMovementActivityEssentialsConcernedMetaphorProducersSymbolsEngineersMachineryWatch MePointersTelecommunications Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that "In the beginning was the Word," and "In the beginning God created." Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.” EnoughDesignMovementEssentialsMessagesIntelligentRecognitionIntelligent Design Author:Phillip E. Johnson
“One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.” MenYearsLooksHas BeensFilmSportsInterestAnswersQualityWatchesStyleMovementEssentialsMusicianEmptyUnionsAthleteHeavyTennisDullRebellionSovietMetalsDominantSoviet UnionAbsentPublic InterestHeavy MetalFacelessFinesse Author:David Foster Wallace
“In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.” MenMovementEssentialsTestsBreathing Author:August Krogh
“Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.” WorldWellsDoeBeliefImaginationMovementInspireDevelopmentEssentialsPaperLibraryIntellectLastingOur LovePapersEcosystemsSustainable Development Author:George Monbiot
“As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.” IfsWorldNeedsUseMovingCultureLosesResultsExistenceDoubtTreeMovementBrokenCreaturesEssentialsFundamentalsEmbraceConvincedNo DoubtStabilityMagnificentMobileParticipantsDefaultBroken World Author:Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.” IfsStudyFocusMovementExpressionEssentialsCrossesCamerasRaisedTake TimeSectionsRevealingFractions Author:Julio Cortazar
“I think this ['March']is essential reading to understand the Black Lives Matter movement. I think it's also essential reading for the Black Lives Matter movement, so that they understand the political context that they're engaging in.” ThinkingMatterPoliticalReadingBlackMovementEssentialsMarchEngagingBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Author:Andrew Aydin
“The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.” IfsThinkingMeanHandsAbleEnemyCuttingMovementEssentialsSpringIntentionStrikesPrimariesMartial ArtsTouchingHitting Book:A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind Source: A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind
“Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.” WayNeedsTryingHeartFactsStoriesTogetherBeautifulMovementEssentialsPhilosophicalInstrumentsWoodsBunchMessExistentialismCriedCacophony Author:Jandy Nelson