Perpetual motion Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch Download Open image “We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.” — Stephen Nachmanovitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Perpetual motion Surprise World
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it. — Hamsalekha Copy Share Image
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share
In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the areas in which… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share
Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so... ordinary. I'd never felt like this before. Ever. And just admitting it to myself instead of hiding from it made me feel strong. Happy. I took off my shoes and socks and… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share
“You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle created by your lady around herself and you, like the natural emanations of stars, other lives circle yours, seeds still winged and wind-borne, looking for sympathetic soil. You feel the juices and solids of your body in attempted rearrangement, or, more disturbing,… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share
“Marketing is a never-ending story. It’s about perpetual motion where innovation plays the lead role.” — Stacey Kehoe Copy Share Image
Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“He scolded his listeners for being eager to sell off their few productive assets in exchange for articles of prestige. “You say you want… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
“Leo Szilard, in 1929, showed that the very act of acquiring information about a system increases its entropy in proportion to the amount of information gathered. As the entropy increases, less of the system's total heat energy is available for doing work. To gather enough information to work the shutter effectively we would have to use up, or render inaccessible,… — Basil Mahon Copy Share
Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day. — Beth Comstock Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence ... there is an enormous amount of information about the world. His suggestion that the most valuable information on scientific knowledge in a single sentence… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share
“Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share
