Quotes About Centrality

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

Here's the strangeness of having a Tourette's brain, then: no control in my personal experiment of self. What might be only strangeness must always be auditioned for relegation to the domain of symptom, just as symptoms always push into other domains, demanding the chance to audition for their moment of acuity or relevance, their brief shot—coulda been a contender!—at centrality. Personalityness. There's a lot of traffic in my head, and it's two-way.

The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem "The Second Coming" says, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Ocidente construiu um olhar sobre o trabalho colocando-o como o centro da vida, da realização e da dignidade da pessoa humana. E jogou por terra outros pensamentos, outras teorias, outras práticas que não levavam em consideração uma visão de tempo centrada na produção.

Oppression is no longer centralized, for it is everywhere. The positive aspect of this disintegration is that everyone begins to see, in their state of almost complete isolation, that they must first save themselves, make themselves the centre, and from their own subjectivity build a world where they can be at home anywhere.

Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

The middle course is the best.

By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.

In his 1986 autobiographical work, Confessions of a Theologian, Carl F. H. Henry, dean of twentieth-century American evangelical theologians, lamented that several Christian colleges and universities had started to veer away from the centrality of their work, by and large giving up the cognitive focus on Christian thought in favor of Christian piety and activism.

So if that's it, if that's the point of it all, if that's the ticket, the center, the one unavoidable reality, the heart of the Christian faith, why is it that no one used the phrase until the last hundred years or so?

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.

G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.

Some people think that the world revolves around them but even the Sun is not the center of the Universe.

I bez stvarnog zna?aja nam je što je vasiona beskraj i krug, jer mi verujemo da smo u njenom centru. I sa svim svojim napretkom i znanjima, mi se u sebi nismo promakli od tog privida, te svoje jedne ta?kice u središtu plavog prostora. Jer bilo šta da uradimo, bilo gde da stignemo, uvek smo u središtu, uvek smo sebi u središtu, svagda nam se horizonti savijaju u krug. Kad bismo bar videli da je taj krug nama jedino vidna i znana - ve?nost. Ve?nost kojoj ne pripadamo.

Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find out actual place in the fabric of nature.