Fluidity Quotes

• Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Reality, Discontinuity

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.13, Grove Press

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• It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Wisdom, Contradiction, Obvious

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• Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, Undecided, Adamant

  Speech in House of Commons, 12 Nov. 1936

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• Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Empty Mind, Dying

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

  Jose Mourinho

  Strong, Team, Inspirational Soccer

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• It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

  Josh Schwartz

  People, Sexuality, Accepted

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  Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Way, Fixation

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Communication, Top Down, Leader

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• When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

  Laozi

  Creative, Taoism, Constancy

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• ...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Real, Growth

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• The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

  Leon Krier

  Doe, Bottles, Liquid

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.70, Island Press

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• The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

  Michael Arndt

  Emotional, Self Improvement, Belief

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• There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Inspiration, Dancing

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• If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Opposites, Water, Gold

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

  Robert Greene

  Lying, Presence Of Mind, Self

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lying, Ebb And Flow, When You Love Someone

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• When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom

  Leo Buscaglia

  Lying, Love Is, Ebb And Flow

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• Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Art, Practice

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

  Zadie Smith

  Keys, Novelists, Problem

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

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• Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.

  Ruby Rose

  Feelings, Like You, Gender

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.

  Theresa Rebeck

  Moving, Feelings, Brain

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• The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

  Martin Amis

  Twists, Looks, Sentimental

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 19, 2011

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• We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Faith, Love Is

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Song, Heart, Blood

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• I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Swans, Ideas

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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