Best movement & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.”

Use Body Form Order Names Language Secret Generations Movement Habit Weapons Relation Method Instinct Jew Various Rely Secrecy Rely Upon Secret Society

Book:Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

Source: Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

“We are cognizant of time, the sense that there is mutability. Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms. Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.”

Different Form Space Awareness Movement Buddhism Eternity Separation Cognizant Mutability

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.”

Mind States Eye Form Sound Seeing Movement Capacity Ears Hearing Tongue Noses Manifestation Flavor Limitless Tasting Odor

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.”

Self Moments Form Individual Movement Ignorance Bounds Wave Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.”

Art Important School Form White Quality Movement Reflection Window Works Of Art Curtains Great Work Lace

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.”

Done Dream Lasts Faces Moving Form Night Simple Space Tree Movement Thirds Strive Forgotten Forests Last Night Face To Face Moving In Third Time

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.”

Long Form Strong Movement Victory These Days Sincere Sympathy Elude Elude Us Elude You

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”

Should Looks Form Space Movement Draws Edges Gestures Precise

Author:Kimon Nicolaides

“A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.”

Form Movement Limits Depth Visuals Shock Infinity Modeling Limitless Chiaroscuro

Author:Joan Miro

“Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.”

Way Giving Mind Form Turns Movement Objects Ego Perception Grasping Aversion

Author:Adyashanti

“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”

Men Way Form Artist Movement Emotional Strange Shapes Emotional Life Shape Of Things

Author:Graham Collier

“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.”

Whole Character Facts Body Form Sound Movement Produce Particular Elements Universal Accounts Function Harmony Rhythm Atoms Vibrations Celestial Celestial Bodies

Author:Pythagoras

“The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.”

“Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.”

Men Humans Two War Form Desire Risk Movement Built Essence Towns Longing Hunger East Urges Stability Opposing Permanence Instability

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.”

Trying Action Spiritual Form Force Accepting Movement Ideals Intellect Characteristics Labour Horizon Creeds Inward New Horizons

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“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.”

“Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.”

People Men Self Form Found Wise Fashion Movement He Man Strive Foolish Genuine Reform Fringe Fanatics Lunatic Reform Movements

Book:The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

“It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the basis of Futurist theory, in no way required one to paint nothing but speeding cars or ballerinas in action; for a person who is seated, or an inanimate object, though apparently static, could be considered dynamically and suggest dynamic forms. I may mention as an example the 'Portrait of Madame S.' (1912) and the 'Seated Woman' (1914).”

World Way Should Mind May Persons Action Form Born Car Example Movement Objects Theory Research Bases Paint Portraits Outlook Static Ballerina Speeding Inanimate Objects Futurist Speeding Cars

Author:Gino Severini

“What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.”

Giving Littles Form Interest Movement Painting Invisible Cosmic Fleeting Fragments Elusive Suspended

Author:James Nares

“A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart”

Heart Earth Form Sound Water Sea Movement Return Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Infinity Veins Variation

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance.”

People Years Wells Mean Doe Said Ideas Form Used Democracy Wife Feminism Movement Years Ago Currents Excuse My Wife Ridiculous Invention Resistance Used To Be Posts Not Interested Excuse Me

Author:Gloria Steinem

“dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.”

Should Humans Art Running Form Imagination Movement Walking Art Is Dance Experts Jumping Refinement

Author:Twyla Tharp

“There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.”

States Moving Form Force United Deals Behinds United States Movement Racism Evidence Prejudice Racial Prejudice Resurgence

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.”

Play Shows Action Form Stage Movement Building Drama Tables Boxes Trials Agendas Executives Sequence Jury Reserved Exit Benches Entrances Courtroom Aquariums Elizabethan

Author:Shana Alexander

“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”

Eye Running Moving Form Careers Four Movement Objects All Things Accounts Horse Twenties Mad Legs Disappear Rapids Vibrations Profile

Author:Giacomo Balla

“There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.”

Art Real Lasts Form Movement Grunge

Author:Daphne Guinness

“There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.”

Thinking Wells Two Soul Form Movement Practicals Locals Distinctive Cognizant

Book:On the Soul

Source: On the Soul

“There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.”

Form Modern Movement Architecture Tales Housing Defining Disappearance

Author:Martin Filler

“I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”

Made Form Poetry Language Black White Movement Color Poet Red Blue Green Senses Rhythm Poetic Flattered Vowels Consonants

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind.”

“Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.”

Form Movement Function Terrorism Globalization

Author:Thomas P.M. Barnett

“In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.”

Mind Heart Self Form Movement Direct Shining Deeper Sole Restraint Thyself Plunge Brahman

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.”

Way Philosophy Reality Together Form Path Alive Movement Truth Is Method Institutions Fixed Organized Definite Living Things Static

Author:Bruce Lee

“The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.”

Mind States Whole Moving Form Suffering Movement Ego Unhappiness State Of Mind Back And Forth Flux Moving Back

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.”

Thinking World Mind Art Different Philosophy Action Film Form Movement Internals Martial Arts Action Films

Author:Jet Li

“We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.”

“For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that.”

People Knows Feels Writing Form Bits Can Do Pieces Movement Paint Chaos Excitement Manifest Masterpiece Fog Cliffs Dense Bits And Pieces

Book:The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality in the Writing Life

Source: The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality in the Writing Life

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.”

“A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.”

Way Writing States Play Body Happens Action Form Universe Games Awareness Movement Conscious Athlete Superiors Dancer Strokes Paradigm Interference Good Athlete Body Awareness Superior Intelligence

Author:Laozi

“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”

Form Darkness Movement Color Painting Ten Concerned Substance Brightness Remoteness

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.”

Knows Mean Form Asks Sports Sleep Levels Movement Football Wake Up Lifestyle Obsession Insane Bubbles Going To Sleep High Level Mourinho

Author:Conor McGregor

“Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.”

Wells Whole Form Culture Black Community White Movement Type Happenings Dancing Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Hispanic Freestyle Breakdancing

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a fixed process, and I think it creates a very important challenge. It creates a way of writing that is, in a way, flatter or smooth, a surface conducive to release, to movement. And in this way, the form of writing gets delightfully melded with the process of the writing.”

Thinking Way Writing Important Form Process Challenges Chance Movement Surface Release Fixed Smooth

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style experimentations tethered to literary movements (formalism, deconstruction, modernism, and postmodernism), and the basic principal of breaking every rule I ever learned from a patriarchal writing tradition that never included my body or experience, and thus has nothing to offer me in terms of representation.”

Writing Body Form Choices Term Style Movement Offers Tradition Combination Principal Representation Formal Modernism Experimentation Linguistics Postmodernism Deconstruction Semiotics

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.”

“Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.”

Thinking Self Hard Form Political Term Acting Imagine Movement Buddhism Degrees Mass Introspection Examination Self-examination

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.”

Mind Form Meditation Movement Yoga Abiding Yoga Inspiration Seers

Author:Patanjali

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