Quotes About Fulcrum

This is a very difficult, almost metaphysical problem: how can what is pure chance at the outset become the fulcrum for a construction of truth? How can something that was basically unpredictable and seemed tied to the unpredictable vagaries of existence nevertheless become the entire meaning of two lives that have met, paired off, that will engage in the extended experience of the constant (re)-birth of the world via the mediation of the difference in their gazes?

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.

The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".

moment of the fulcrum, the pivot, the turnaround, the instant when the meaning of it all will appear.

Given the right lever you can move a planet.

Con el punto de apoyo adecuado es posible hasta mover el mundo

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Give me a lever and I will move the earth

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

It is perhaps worth remembering that we are all, as a species, prey to dreams and nightmares. Our art is built upon the irrepressible stream of images rising from a secret fulcrum that can never be trusted. And though these images can delight and amaze, they can also paralyze and terrify. There are times when we are shamed by the most fleeting savage fancy.

the Archimedean point where the lever can be applied." At

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

I wouldn't have thought that I was heavy enought to lift you. Leverage, Stone said. You just need to provide... Leverage

Management is essentially moving the fulcrum over, and the key to effective management is delegation.

The center was a horizontal rod

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India.