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People make moves like the Pawn.
(Let's go in the real world, look how they walk, from one up two max blocks they can take... so far it's sounds like the moves of pawn. People can be the king and the queen...)
It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.
You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.
A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones
Going in the wrong direction but making really good time
Solid human being, moving in and out of the orbits of others.
Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
Never confuse movement with action.
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!
He slithers his arms about
I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.
The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.
We start to sway again. We're not actually dancing, just rocking side to side. Not moving forward or backward. Just moving.
Like most of our time together, we're treading water.
Trying not to drown.
So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.
It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they go. The art of movement, therefore, is one of the most complex and vital that any commander must master if he is going to win.
Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.
A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.
Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of joie de vivre, or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one's make-up.
Why do you need to gallop while you fly?"
"Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right.
Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you ...
As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.
Don't indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves
The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Jumping up and down like a Mexican jumping bean on crack.
shifted his weight from one foot to the
Never confuse motions with action.
Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
Sliding is living antifriction. Or, no, sliding is living by antifriction. It is finding a modest thing you can do, and then greasing that thing. On both sides. It is grooving with comfort.
Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
I think the trick is knowing where you're supposed to be, and lettig go of everything else long enough to be there.
At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?
Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.
At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot externalize by rational means.
If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.
You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.
Something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ... that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality, ... and thinks He moved the finger
You have to stop to change direction.
Eye and foot acquire in rough walking a co-ordination that makes one distinctly aware of where the next step is to fall, even while watching sky and land.
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.
When in doubt, move, even if it's in the wrong direction.
Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something - brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct - effects movement.
Dancing cheek to cheek.
Move on up towards your destination
Start at the beginning," he said. "Move one step in the direction of your goal. Remember that you can change direction to maneuver around obstacles. You don't need a plan, you need a vector.
I'm glad you turned cartwheels here."
Samantha heard the note of loneliness in his voice. "You did hear me say back tuck? Because that was my coolest move."
His arm came around her shoulders, and they started across the space again. "Back tuck. Coolest move. Got it.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
By changing your direction, you can always change your destination!
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.
Dance on the edge of mystery.
There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes.
Choreography is writing on your feet.
Management by Walking Around
Most stuff you can do standing on your head.
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.
Pay attention to the space between where we're standing and where we want to go.
Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
The most acrobatic thing that goes on here is a synchronized hair flip.
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.
Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
When wiggling through a hole
the world looks different than
when scrubbed clean by the wiggle
and looking back.
We move like a platoon of silhouettes
balancing sledge hammers on our heads,
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.
Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?
Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.
Sometimes you have to go backward to move forward
Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.
Sometimes, Harold, the way forward takes you by surprise. You try to force something in the familiar direction and discover that what it needs is to move in a different dimension. The way forward is not forward, but off to one side, in a place you have not noticed before.
To leap into it and hold on, connecting everything,
Movements- driven by such unexpected need, fueled by such a relentless desire, and crashing into unimaginable possibilities.
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
Move with your feet, the hands will follow.
The ultimate aim of dancing is to be able to move without thinking, to be danced.
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares
Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.
Men's activities are occupied into ways
in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
Life is all about dancing freely while the music is still playing, but remaining optimistic about the next song. If you're lucky, someone will expectantly join in and mimic your moves in perfect timing as if the two of you had been dancing together all of your live.
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
One foot in each world, riding them simultaneously; expecting not to fall.
Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.
The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
A little backflip (backflips), but it's not part of Parkour, but i like doing this since i did gym.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!
It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.
Movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born.
Know when and how to get out of the way.-- Bob Sutton
Once on his feet, though, man does not stay where he is.
The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.