Best movement & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.”

Firsts Movement Instinct

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”

“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”

“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”

“The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.”

Ifs World Firsts Made Stills Two States Lasts Fighting Names Energy Party Movement Personality First Time Innovation Hot Possession Divides Pauses Conservatism

Book:Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Source: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

“Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.”

“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.”

Years Firsts Humans Problem Turns Names Term Realizing Common Steps Our Lives Century Movement Six Faults Motherhood Human Life Forty First Steps Eighty Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Betty Friedan

“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.”

Feels Firsts May Fall Speak Force Social Challenges Behinds Roles Movement Citizens Politician Forgotten Congress Compromise Protest Legislators Social Movements

Author:Howard Zinn

“I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an experiment. Science fiction authors were scarce. There were not a dozen worth mentioning in the entire world”

World Firsts America Fiction Modern Movement Science Fiction Experiments Magazines Dozen Scarce

Author:Hugo Gernsback

“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.”

Firsts Difficult Differences Impossible Events Movement Objects Circumstances Constant Statements Data Perceive Relative Our Relationship Observers Initials Sensory Derivatives

Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

“Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.”

“It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started. First, that this happens by the permission, not by the will of God. To this objection there is a twofold reply, the one, that angels and men, good and bad, do nothing but what is appointed by God; the second, that all movements are secretly directed to their end by the hidden inspiration of God.”

Men Firsts Said Ends Inspiration Happens Three Movement Angel Gods Will Satan Permission Good And Bad Objections

Book:Institutes of the Christian Religion

Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.”

Way Firsts Whole Stories Progress Movement Changed Length Zero Realising Quarters Up And Down Plunge Rewriting Caterpillars

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.”

Men Firsts Turns Three Sides Cases Doors Car Movement He Man Judging Beats Mouths Window Blind Prepared Manage Spots Drivers Vehicle Traffic One Word Shouting Stranded

Author:Jose Saramago

“As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.”

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.”

“Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of liberation that has throughout history risen in protest against the totalitarian and anti-human movements of various kinds, such as communism and nazism. It is therefore natural that the Progress Party with its liberal base once again stands first in the line and takes up the fight when a new fascist ideology as Islamism is spreading throughout the world.”

World Firsts Humans Kind Fighting Natural Lines Party Progress Movement Various Ideology Communism Liberation Liberalism Protest Risen Fascists Nazism

Author:Carl I. Hagen

“The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.”

Firsts Force Gone Atheism Movement Goes On Positive Atheism Active Orthodox No Respect Free Thought New Knowledge

Book:The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

“Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.”

Men Way Firsts Real Wanted Movement Personality Clothes New Ways Seduction Decoration Corsets

Author:Audrey Tautou

“I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was '65, I don't know. Somebody showed me a copy of the "East Village Other", which was an underground newspaper. And... it had comics in it! And they weren't superhero comics.”

Knows Firsts Art Whole Next Stuff Influence Movement Tvs Pops East Drawing Newspapers Copies Village Superhero Pop Art East Village

Author:Trina Robbins

“The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.”

Firsts Movement Soreness

Author:Dan John

“Ive been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.”

Firsts Jobs Party Leader Clear Movement Labour Labour Party Labour Movement

Author:David Cunliffe

“I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.”

Firsts Ideas Born Taken Sea Events Movement Ocean Wave Rhythm Great Events

Author:Isadora Duncan

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.”

Want Firsts Home Certain Individual Social Class Issues Rights Movement Football Civil Rights Defined Integration Social Issues Civil Rights Movement First Class

Author:Jim Brown

“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”

Firsts Movement Reflection Instinct Impulse Generous

Author:Aime Martin

“Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics.”

“I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.”

Firsts Littles Persons Bits Chance Generations Movement Little Bit Solidarity

Author:Donald Tusk

“I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions.”

“My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.”

Firsts Kind Whole Courses Movement Jazz Hip Hop Excited Hips Eras Hops Categories New Era Grammy

Author:Herbie Hancock

“Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.”

Firsts Humans Different Ends Reason Light Certain Order Found Understanding Principles Clear Movement Return Judgment Understood Discovery Possession Analysis Reasoning Inquiry Acquisition

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .”

Way Firsts Children Book Action Teacher Movement Inspire Observation Spontaneous Montessori

Book:The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method

“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.”

Writing Mind Firsts Heart Book Matter Hard Use Eye Opportunity My Own Animal Seeing Movement Office Findings Understood Function Difficulty Dissection

Author:William Harvey

“One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.”

Way Firsts Has Beens Made School Nations Education Support Movement High School Universal Embrace One Way Primaries Exceptional Lead In Primary Education Secondary Education

Author:Paul Krugman

“I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.”

Firsts Children Desire Names Movement Posters Petitions Disgruntled

Author:John Ridley

“My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.”

Firsts Believe Home Lying Strong Leader Rights Middle Movement Equal Feminist East Iran Strongest Quarters Very Strong Middle East Equal Rights Iranian Feminist Movement

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.”

Way Firsts Feelings Goal Hurt Movement Revolution Expectations Accomplish Expected Absurd Liberation

Author:Mary Blakely

“What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.”

Firsts Humans Self Political Powerful Self Esteem Movement Son Instinct Feminist Motherhood Esteem My Son Activist Recognizing Deliberate Junk Assertion Housewife Stunned

Author:Mary Blakely

“Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.”

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.”

Firsts Movement Intellectual Europe Jew Jesuit

Book:Coningsby, etc

Source: Coningsby, etc

“When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.”

Firsts Humans Race Movement Members Blow Human Race Neglect Suicidal

Author:Maya Angelou

“In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.”

Firsts Guy Imagine Heard Childhood Movement Radio Singers Tall Genes

Author:Bob Dylan

“When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.”

Writing Firsts Novel Movement Products Late Feminist Memoir Queens Sixty Exes Urgent Urgency Prom Prom Queen

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.”

Firsts Kind Whole Facts Christian America Support Failing Influence Movement Revolution Development Mass Revolutionary Accomplished Latin Latin America Nicaragua

Author:Ernesto Cardenal

“That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Kind Littles Home Young Natural Wonderful Movement Adventure Species Excitement Wonderful Things Hunts Profitable Nests Natural History

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Small acts can drive reforms. What appears minor can actually be vital and fundamental. Generating 20,000 MW of power attracts a lot of attention. That is important. At the same time, 20,000 MW of power can be saved through a people's movement for energy efficiency. The second is more difficult but is as important as the first. Small indeed, is beautiful.”

People Firsts Important Beautiful Energy Difficult Attention Movement India Fundamentals Saved Reform Minors Efficiency Governance Small Acts Energy Efficiency

Author:Narendra Modi

“Our movement was a great success; I think the most successful military movement of my life. But I expect to receive more credit for it than I deserve. Most men will think I planned it all from the first; but it was not so. I simply took advantage of circumstances as they were presented to me in the providence of God. I feel that His hand led me - let us give Him the glory.”

Thinking Men Giving Feels Firsts War Hands Successful Military Movement Circumstances Glory Deserve Advantage Credit Civil War Providence Great Success

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.”

Firsts Evil Movement Clouds Uplifting Acquire Thrive Rapids Rumor Stalking Evil Things

Author:Virgil

“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”

Firsts May Artist Principles Effects Movement Particular Succeed Machines Complexes Wheels Fewer Employed

Book:The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

“When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide.”

Firsts Water Situation Sun Movement Battle Miles Dawn Staring Rays Headings Miles Away

Author:Russell Crowe

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