Center Of Gravity Quotes

• Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Adversity

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• I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

  Michael Mullen

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Mullen on Taliban, mission in Afghanistan". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

  Ray Stevenson

  Jeans, Gravity

  "Ray Stevenson (Volstag) and Joshua Dallas (Fandril) On Set Interview THOR". Interview on the Set, collider.com. December 10, 2010.

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• It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

  Peter Elbow

  Shapes, Chaos, Moments

  Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Abdomen, Source

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.80, Tuttle Publishing

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• Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Becoming, Gravity

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2011

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• To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Enemy, Victory, Movement

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• Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Spiritual, Father

  John Henrik Clarke (1991). “Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution”, Africa World Pr

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• When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Notebook, Prayer, Memories

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

  Anton Chekhov

  Hero, Character, Two

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, Twenties

  Briefing at Foreign Press Center, Washington, D.C., 22 Jan. 2003

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• Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Past, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The thought must have its own center of gravity; it cannot just be either here or there. We must find this center of gravity. It is the same for the body; if it is not centered, no movement will be possible. It is the same for the feeling. These Movements are designed to enable us to pass from one center of gravity to another; it is the shift that creates the state. The gesture, the movement, is what is important, not the attitudes.

  Jeanne de Salzmann

  Attitude, Feelings, Important

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• Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rising, Elements, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Europe, Germany, Ambassadors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Distance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.

  Ray Stevenson

  Character, Jeans, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so outer-directed, "objective" or extraverted-this is already heresy. This is self-mastering thinking, centered in what has been well-tested as certainties: autarkia or self-rule.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Feet

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• I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

  Ken Kutaragi

  Good Luck, Worried, Gravity

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• If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a pleasant feeling

  Junzo Yoshimura

  Thinking, Serenity, House

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• The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

  John Dewey

  Hurt, Fall, Law

  John Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey (1921). “Letters from China and Japan”

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• A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Orange, Anxiety, Bells

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, Germany

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2005.

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• I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.

  Marisa Miller

  Ocean, Swimming, Balance

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• In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

  Chase Twichell

  Beautiful, Pain, Drama

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