Mobility Quotes

• I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

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• In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

  Max Lucado

  World, Upward Mobility, Servility

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.275, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Nature, Birds Wings, People

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• Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Luxury, Design

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• One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Society, Liberty

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom. On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's less well off to become tomorrow's rich, and in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a richer and fuller life.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Opportunity, Hands

  Free to Choose ch. 5 (1980).

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• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  School, Serious, Building

  "Pre-School Is Where Upward Mobility Begins" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country. And because education is so critical to success in this country, if we don't figure out a way to create greater mobility across social class, I do think it will be the beginning of the end.

  Shirley M. Tilghman

  Success, Education, Country

  "Opening the Door for Low-Income Students to Overcome 'Aristocracy' of Higher Ed". www.pbs.org. September 08, 2013.

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• People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.

  Stan Lee

  People, Goal, Pissed Off

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• In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Digital, Advantage, Streets

  "Thinking Outside the Box Office". Interview with Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 01, 2005.

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• For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Baby, Jobs, Moving

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• The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

  Martin Puryear

  Grieving, Fire, Incredibles

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• Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

  Bill Lipinski

  Sexy, Issues, Important

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• We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

  Paul Ryan

  Strong, Justice, Effort

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• Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

  Bob Ney

  Independent, Technology, Opportunity

  "U.S. House Passes Braille Commemorative Coin Bill". Bob Ney's remarks before the vote on H.R. 2872, nfb.org. February 28, 2006.

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• Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

  Mary Douglas

  Jobs, Ephemeral, Stability

  "Group dynamics" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2007.

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• Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Opportunity, Earth, Source

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Important, Earth, Way

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Mean, Reflection, Mind

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• America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

  David Brooks

  Dream, America, Personality

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• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan Williams

  Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

  John F. Kennedy

  New Ventures, Decision, Risk

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

  David Frum

  Country, Upward Mobility, Tvs

  "David Frum Bashes Fox News Viewers: End Up 'Knowing A Lot Less About Important World Events'". CNN Interview, www.newsbusters.org. December 12, 2011.

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• The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Dream, Children, Journey

  "Pre-School Is Where Upward Mobility Begins" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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