John Tyler Bonner

Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape. To put it another way, size is a supreme regulator of all matters biological. No living entity can evolve or develop without taking size into consideration. Much more than that, size is a prime mover in evolution.

American Educator

Aslaug Magnusdottir

We were the first multibrand platform for the customization of designer clothing. And it's great to be a first mover if you manage to pull it off. You can have a great competitive advantage. But if you're quite early, you're learning a lot: both learning as a company, and the customer is still learning.

Icelander Businesswoman

Paul Haggis

I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I'd work eight, ten hours a day to support my family - and I'd come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.

Canadian Director

Reid Hoffman

Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. This is high-impact entrepreneurship.

American Businessman

Simon Schama

In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation.

British Historian

Robert Downey, Jr.

I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.

American Actor

Kevin Morby

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a cafe, and I did bike delivery, and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

American Musician

Bruno Tonioli

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Italian Dancer

Michael McDonald

Honestly, I've never thought of myself as a mover and shaker of songwriting.

Alexandra Petri

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

American Journalist

Used to describe individuals involved in moving objects from one place to another.

Physical Movement

Focuses on the action performed rather than the occupation itself.

Action Driven

Sometimes used to describe animals or robots that move items.

Not Always Human

Refers to a business providing relocation services, not general transport.

Service Specific

While a mover can be a person, in this context, it's an entire company.

Impersonal Entity

Evokes someone pivotal in driving change, not just a participant.

Change Catalyst

Often suggests influence/power without directly mentioning it.

Figurative Use

While it can mean a vehicle, 'mover' may also describe a piece of machinery.

Not Only Vehicles

Used in industry or construction, not in everyday conversation.

Technical Context

 can get this picture you don't have all those land-based super infrastructure this is all going to be done by a ship but you have this big hole in the ground it's open open cut mining basically in the southwest Pacific Nautilus Minerals ISM mining company first mover company they are a canadian company working out

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 This makes her the manager – and the mover – of a city of thousands. Twice a year, Boraqchin moves the city between two seasonal camping grounds. This ensures constant water and lush grass in summer, and protection from harsh winds in winter. The whole operation requires weeks of strict planning,

A day in the life of a...

 well it's time to move and you can see the big one there's the magic one has changed the direction I was walking the other way and the magic was I said this is the direction you're going we are all going south mover great wat hallelujah and as the elephants are living cept you

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 in terms of the proportion of people who had completed high school. You can see the United States ahead of everyone else, and much of the economic success of the United States draws on its long-standing advantage as the first mover in education.

Andreas Schleicher: Use...

 And you need both fronts to effect change on that scale. And there's another prime mover that we don't talk about enough, which seems a little bit unlikely in the context of disruptive innovation, and that is large bureaucratic institutions.

Steven Johnson: How...

 that's occurred in your brain is you. Billions of events have occurred in your history that are related in time to yourself as the receiver, or yourself as the actor, yourself as the thinker, yourself as the mover.

Michael Merzenich:...

 We change the economics for the bad guys. But to do this, a first mover was required -- someone to change the thinking in the security industry overall. About a year ago, my colleagues and I had a radical idea.

Where is cybercrime...

 playing Mozart's Piano Concerto number 23 and a major mover one and it was to say music to my ears I think music has helped me perform better in competitions because I get used to being up on stage

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 real slow mover coming in a distant third forest go second third you beat you both be a trail of burning gasoline now I'm gonna mean it hang on a minute hang on you know why that happened no

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 this slow mover is a silky anteater his giant claw and a gripping prehensile tail help keep his balance as he walks the mangrove tightropes of the swamp

Mover