Quotes About Midpoint

When I play well, it is usually when I am in the centre.

We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

Never forget, the most vulnerable spot is down the middle.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

The midpoint of the NBA season comes a little after the turn of the calendar year. As we settle into the new promises we've made to ourselves, basketball teams are busy evaluating how the promises they made to themselves over the summer are going.

The midpoint scene occurs just where you'd expect it—about halfway through the script. Syd Field, in The Screenwriter's Workbook, says that it divides the story in half, introducing an event or line of dialogue that helps structure Act Two. In my work consulting on more than 2,000 scripts and teaching many of the best films, I don't find a midpoint scene in every film. But when I do find one, it functions as an excellent tool to help structure a difficult second act.

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

there is usually a course to be found somewhere between laid-back and laid out.

Things always come back into balance, though, right? Eventually." Dad goes very still, eerily so considering his disease. "Eventually. Balance came back in 1918 after twenty million deaths. It came back in 1945 after seventy million. It's getting the pendulum back to the midpoint that's the killer. And right now it's being pushed hard right, all around the world. The last gasp of Ozymandias—once more, with feeling.

The center was a horizontal rod

In this example, the defining characteristic of the median—that it does not weight observations on the basis of how far they lie from the midpoint, only on whether they lie above or below—turns out to be its weakness.

characteristic of the median—that it does not weight observations on the basis of how far they lie from the midpoint

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

In the midst of things.

In the middle, we relax our standards, perhaps because others relax their assessments of us. At midpoints, for reasons that are elusive but enlightening, we cut corners—as one last experiment shows. Touré-Tillery and Fishbach also engaged other participants

What time do you usually go to sleep? What time do you usually wake up? What is the middle of those two times—that is, what is your midpoint of sleep?

said back into the phone. The manhole was exactly halfway between Judy's front door and Rocky's. Over the summer they had measured it with a very long ball of string.

upon the Median