Motions Quotes

about his early drumming years with The Beatles] I started to be an engineer but I banged me thumb on the first day. I became a drummer because it was the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer I know I`m no good. (John Lennon) taught me the song I sing. I can only play on the off beat because John can`t keep up on the rhythm guitar. I`m no good on the technical things but I`m good with all the motions, swinging my head, like. That`s because I love to dance but you can`t do that on the drums. I figure we`re good for another four years. I don`t want to invest me money in stocks or anything. I just want to have it and draw 20 or 30 quid a week. The main thing is, I don`t ever want to go back to work.

Acting is still tough for me on a certain level. Every role for me is like going back to zero. I have to decide what I`m going to do or if I can even act anymore. It`s rough when you`re constantly challenging yourself to do better and better work, rather than merely going through the motions.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

We pride ourselves on that. The guys who are playing just can`t go through the motions like they would be able to against some scout teams. It`s like they`re going against the same competition they play against every day in practice.

We don`t want to put conditions, because we can`t put conditions, but lets put a feel-good statement out there that has no meaning. We were told we can`t make all these warm fuzzy good motions. If it`s in the city then that`s an issue. The Community Development Commission isn`t in charge of making everybody feel good.

(about his early drumming years with The Beatles) I started to be an engineer but I banged me thumb on the first day. I became a drummer because it was the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer I know I`m no good. (John Lennon) taught me the song I sing. I can only play on the off beat because John can`t keep up on the rhythm guitar. I`m no good on the technical things but I`m good with all the motions, swinging my head, like. That`s because I love to dance but you can`t do that on the drums. I figure we`re good for another four years. I don`t want to invest me money in stocks or anything. I just want to have it and draw 20 or 30 quid a week. The main thing is, I don`t ever want to go back to work.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don`t understand that you`ve got to practice the way you play.

When things weren`t going our way, we got a little frustrated at times, ... But that`s just the competitor in all of us. I hate being out there and going through the motions and not accomplishing what I need to accomplish. I got my composure. We just stayed with it and we never stopped believing.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

The thing that most people didn`t understand...was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

(Hill hopes there is no hangover from the Pulaski Academy game.) We played with no intensity, ... We just went through the motions. We never made a play. We're lucky we didn't get beat by 70.

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it`s a shame that we couldn`t make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

I don`t want people to remember me going through the motions.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn`t dictate to her.

There`s a difference between going out to practice and punting, and getting in a game and punting. He has to get the ball off, he`s got a live rush, he`s got guys coming at him, and I`m trying to work on his mindset. I`m trying to get him to where he`s competing against New Mexico State when he gets a snap, and he`s not just going out and going through the motions.

Losing is very contagious. When you fall into a streak like we`ve done, it becomes very easy for you to just want to go through the motions. Right now, we`re not doing that. But I think it`s necessary for us to get a victory soon to show ourselves that we can be a successful team. Once we get one, I believe, then more and more wins will come.

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Burnout is nature`s way of telling you, you`ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you`re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.