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Everything revolves around the fork.
Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned; it must be led.
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.
There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
My head is turned by every eye
time and timing is a pivot that determines the real value of what we do or what we choose not to do
If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table.
The key to working smarter is knowing the difference between motion and direction. In the final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
We speak of moving mountains, but sometimes people can completely rotate the world, just so someone else can land upright on their feet. I
When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.
Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.
The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.
Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.
You're a lever and a fulcrum, you two, looking for a city to turn upside down.
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.
There are plenty of people who might prefer to go sideways. What about them? How are we to inspire them?
One does not make revolutions by halves.
The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
pilaster, probably meant to anchor a
A point of perspection dances in the balance of the seer's vision.
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!
Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.
Fall ten times, stand up eleven.
If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
The still point in a turning world.
The world balanced on the edge of a knife, slipping, slipping, slipping.
Everything comes in circles. [ ... ] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
Off the tilting world like thread off a
One must occasionally stand the world on
its head in order to put it on its feet.
Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.
It is what it is;...hit,shift, and rotate;... roll with the punch
The horizontal world I had thought I occupied was tilting, dumping me somewhere else, somewhere new.
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
Roman, it's all fine! Okay? You can top, bottom, or do it sideways, it doesn't matter."
"You can do it sideways? Is that like spitting sideways?
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.
Don't disarrange my circles!
A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.
The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.
Our axles don't match but our wheels are turning.
Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.
They look right. And you move left.
In the middle of the seesaw is a place that never moves. . . .
Form on the floor. All
Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.
Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless
You can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.
Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
There are two levers for moving man
interest and fear.
My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.
The simple ones aren't simple. The broken ones aren't broken. They are rearranged.
In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.
But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.
Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.
Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
Pay attention to the space between where we're standing and where we want to go.
Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.
as if the world was turning, its center shifting swiftly to the point where she was standing, her
Orientation, the big O in the OODA loop, is the schwerpunkt.
If you are centered, you can move freely.
I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.
In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together.
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...)
If the wind doesn't blow...row
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy!
Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple."
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.
When your world gets turned upside down view it from a new perspective
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
Motherfuckers from Harvard to Harlem respect the Pew Research Center, and hearing this, the concerned patrons turned around in their squeaky plastic seats as best they could, given that donut shop swivel chairs swivel only six degrees in either direction.
A body needs at least
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.
Never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off
For a moment he thought the chair was aligned, but then he decided it was not. He moved it another turn to the right. He tried sitting in the chair now but it still felt peculiar. He turned it again. Eventually he made a complete circle and still he could not find the proper alignment for the chair.
... one of those terrifying rows where suddenly an end you never thought would come rears up in front of you, like a cliff edge you weren't aware of.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
Think off center.
When you are stuck in a spiral, to change the aspects of the spin you only need to change one thing.
As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.
If you lose direction,
go to a higher ground.
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.
Like zero direction
Balance: a dance with how and when.
Falling into Place:
deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.
You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.
with center aligned
One must be able to say at all times
instead of points, straight lines, and planes
tables, chairs, and beer mugs
The world turns upside down every day.
Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.
Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.