#motion

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#i #into #just #keep #labor

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#alter #begins #define #distinct #dress

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms) ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#contact #deadness #emotional #emotions #fear

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#i #keeps #repress #score #stomach

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#sadness #beauty

We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research. ↗

— Abraham Robinson

#appointments #colleges #conclude #course #cruz

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#been #built #business #giving #music

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows. ↗

— Chely Wright

#emotional #high #highs #i #knows

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue. ↗

— Teddy Sheringham

#bought #come #continue #different #different level

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#another #edge #electrons #galaxies #majestic