Fluid Quotes

• I see music as fluid architecture.

  Joni Mitchell

  Architecture

  "POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age" by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.

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• Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  Damien Hirst

  Goal, Way, Life Is

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• If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

  Pythagoras

  Adversity, Light, Darkness

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• Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Relationship, Creativity, Journey

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

  Jane Lynch

  Inspirational, Graduation, Life Changing

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• Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Passion, Intelligent

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.244, Shambhala Publications

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• For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

  Thom Mayne

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• The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

  Loretta Devine

  Thinking, People, Hiv

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• Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

  Rider Strong

  People, Covering, Bodily Functions

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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• Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.

  Laurel Clark

  Glasses, Space, Water

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• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Reading, Eye

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

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• There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

  Laurel Clark

  Heart, Significant Change, Body

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• The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

  Ronald Ross

  What If, Mosquitoes, Growing

  Sir Ronald Ross (1988). “The Great Malaria Problem and Its Solution”

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• Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.

  Michael Andretti

  Believe, Race, Hot

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• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

  Adam Savage

  Gasoline, Mixtures, Fierce

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• This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

  Laurel Clark

  Couple, Space, Hitting

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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