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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• 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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• 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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• The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

  Michael Gove

  Keys, Acquisition, Social

  "Michael Gove reveals the surprising inspirations behind his reforms" by Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

  Harriet Harman

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "Labour attacks Nick Clegg over social mobility plan". www.bbc.com. April 5, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Desire

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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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• We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

  Paul Ryan

  Feet, People, Safety

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• This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Home, Office

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