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Moving Quotes

On change, growth and moving forward.

One quote traces a path from college theater electives to a full relocation out to Los Angeles after graduation, a literal kind of moving. Another uses the word emotionally, describing how choked up a well-known actor became while telling a particular story.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

Quotes by Ray Dalio

I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.

Quotes by Rana el Kaliouby

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

Quotes by Ralph Steadman

The film industry is moving towards digital technology.

Quotes by Rajiv Menon

Having started with Bollywood and then moving to Telugu industry, I feel that it is not possible to survive without talent in any industry.

Quotes by Raashi Khanna

I try to make runs, keep the scoreboard moving. That keeps my confidence up.

Quotes by Prithvi Shaw

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

Quotes by Pitbull

If you are moving the informal economy into the formal economy, and if the transactions which for years were never reported as part of GDP are now transacted through banking channels, it will only add to the GDP, not reduce...

Quotes by Piyush Goyal

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

Quotes by Pieter Zeeman

According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude...

Quotes by Pieter Zeeman

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

Quotes by Piers Corbyn

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.

Quotes by Pico Iyer

My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.

Quotes by Phil Jackson

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Quotes by Phil Bredesen

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Quotes by Peter Nivio Zarlenga

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

Quotes by Peter Maurer

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

Quotes by Peter Drucker

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Quotes by Peggy Noonan

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.

Quotes by Peggy Whitson

Frequently Asked Questions

Is "moving" used mostly in a physical sense in this collection, or emotionally too?
Both - it covers relocating for a new chapter in life, being emotionally moved by someone else's story, and the more abstract, physics sense of things being in motion.
Is there a personal story about a career and relocation?
Yes - one quote traces a specific path: theater work that "branched into" from college electives, a break "during the summer between my junior and senior year," and eventually, "After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A."
Is there a quote about being emotionally moved by someone else?
Yes, one quote is a short, vivid moment: "And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving," describing genuine emotion in someone else's storytelling.
Does this collection touch on physics?
Yes, plainly: one quote reflects on how a major shift in modern physics caused real upheaval in the field, because it shook the very foundations the science had been built on - a reminder that "moving" can describe ideas shifting, not just people or objects.
Is there a quote about accepting change and letting go?
Yes - one quote sums it up simply: "I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on." This same restless, forward-looking spirit runs through the Moving Forward quotes collection.

A more technical quote reflects on how modern physics only truly advanced once its old foundations started to shift beneath it. A closing line keeps things simple, insisting that life itself is really just about moving on. See our forward quotes and always quotes pages.