Motion Quotes

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get asenseof motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.”
― Andrew Motion

“I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
― Anais Nin

“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.”
― Pierre Simon de Laplace

“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.”
― Mike Norton, White Mountain

“We are all glorified motion sensors.

Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change.

We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to them. At the same time we observe and obsess over small, fast-moving, ephemeral things of little value.

The trick to rediscovering constants is to stop and focus on the greater panorama around us. While everything else flits abut, the important things remain in place.

Their stillness appears as reverse motion to our perspective, as relativity resets our motion sensors. It reboots us, allowing us once again to perceive.

And now that we do see, suddenly we realize that those still things are not so motionless after all. They are simply gliding with slow individualistic grace against the backdrop of the immense universe.

And it takes a more sensitive motion instrument to track this.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“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, Science of Mechanics

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“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, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Published for the Royal Society. VOLUMES 1 through 7

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“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, The Time Machine Did It

“I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine

“Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Life, it keeps going. That's pretty much all it is when you boil it down: perpetual motion.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“On the surface, all may seem calm, but things move forward exactly as they should, in tandem with an unseen natural rhythm.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“One's motive is companionship.
One's means is motion.”
― Wald Wassermann

“Without motion one would be alone.”
― Wald Wassermann

“2D animation design has gained immense popularity since when it was first introduced. Today it’s primarily deployed in 2D animation studios for creating advertisements, marketing videos, animated movies or cartoons, corporate presentations, and video games. Besides being adorable, 2D animations tend to capture audiences through their auditory, visual, and kinesthetic aspects.

Information communicated to the viewers in a visual format is perceived far better since it stimulates different brain regions while simultaneously engaging multiple senses to enable the user to comprehend data more effectively. This deeper level of engagement also triggers the urge in users to share what they find attractive, thus, accounting for more prospects.”
― CLD Animation

“You Have Done Your Best
A token of appreciation for an amazing Mother

I remember our expectations of you
We knew you would take care of us
Yet we forgot you had your needs too
We never thought in our little minds
You could be sad sometimes
Or be happy at other times
You were good at hiding your emotions
Because you were always in motion
Making sure we had provision
Oh, Mother, yours was a great vision

To you, we were the priority
You wanted to see us prosper
To date, we still wonder
How one could be so selfless
That about her own life, she cared less
Through you, we were so blessed
We sometimes look back and are amazed
At how you managed to make things happen
We still do not have the answers
All we know is that you have done your best!”
― Gift Gugu Mona, From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman

“All is always in motion but if we remain grounded in the realization that the purpose of motion is love than we are not as easily disturbed.”
― Wald Wassermann

“At that moment the rooster was a tiny, light brown, fluffy ball. No clues to future developments could yet be discerned. All existence went along happily under the will of heaven. With the accelerating motion of nonexistence, unstable embarrassing details gradually displaced themselves.”
― Can Xue, The Embroidered Shoes: Stories

“As Newton might say, 'A television in motion stays in motion, even without a watcher.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Despite the illusion of stillness, everything around us is in constant motion, including our thoughts and actions.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi

“The film critic Roger Ebert once wrote: “I told Miyazaki I love the ‘gratuitous motion’ in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit there for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. ‘We have a word for that in Japanese,’ [Miyazaki] said. ‘It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”
― Jessica Niebel, Hayao Miyazaki