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Quotes About Centers

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
~ Charles Jencks
We increase flow by making work visible, by reducing batch sizes and intervals of work, and by building quality in, preventing defects from being passed to downstream work centers.
~ Gene Kim
We increase flow by making work visible, by reducing batch sizes and intervals of work, and by building quality in, preventing defects from being passed to downstream work centers. By
~ Gene Kim
we are starting to master the First Way: We're curbing the handoffs of defects to downstream work centers, managing the flow of work, setting the tempo by our constraints, and, based on our results from audit and from Dick, we're understanding better than we ever have what is important versus what is not.
~ Gene Kim
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
~ Judith Butler
Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
~ Jared Polis
I remember hearing a radio segment, while working in the studio, that detailed how officials were trying to systematically - and quietly - eliminate individual Planned Parenthood centres throughout the country by tweaking state laws so that it'd be harder and harder and harder for them to operate - and it was working. I was incensed.
~ Marilyn Minter
become common. The form of our times is regional, rather than city-centered. The landscape pattern created by work in our time is, interestingly, more like the old agrarian one: it has many centers like a painting by Kandinsky. "Region" is indeed an old word, going back to "kingdom," a time when boundaries were a bit vague, as defined by culture more than law, and, in many cases, topography, especially mountains
~ Suzannah Lessard
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.
~ Santiago Calatrava
It is believed by men who have devoted years of research to the subject, that all energy and matter throughout the universe respond to and are controlled by the Law of Attraction which causes elements and forces of a similar nature to gather around certain centers of attraction. It is through the operation of this same universal Law of Attraction that constant, deeply seated, strong DESIRE attracts the physical equivalent or counterpart of the thing desired, or the means of securing it.
~ Napoleon Hill
Her name was Annie, and she, too, owned a dog. She said that Alexandria was "the most dog-friendly city in America." There were so many dog day-care centers in town that people asked each other, "So where does your dog go to school?
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
My opinion has always been that when it comes to deciding where specialist centres should be located, whether they are regional or national specialities, it should be done on clinical grounds.
~ Leo Varadkar
The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.
~ Logan Green
biggest use case for parallel processing: artificial intelligence. Today Nvidia's chips, largely manufactured by TSMC, are found in most advanced data centers.
~ Chris Miller
As investors bet that data centers will require ever more GPUs, Nvidia has become America's most valuable semiconductor company.
~ Chris Miller
there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that Relapse is part of recovery. It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery.
~ Chris Prentiss
Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging.
~ Chris Prentiss
Obviously, the higher the density of an energy resource, the lower are its transportation (as well as storage) costs, and this means that its production can take place farther away from the centers of demand.
~ Vaclav Smil
The principal centers for these studies have been the U.S. Naval Medical Center at Pensacola, Florida, and the Soviet space program's ORBIT centrifuge facility in the U.S.S.R.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
So the bottom line is that home centers are even worse than lumberyards as a source for lumber. The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
~ Dave Barry
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
~ Eugene V. Debs
Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.
~ Steve Nash
I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
~ Megan Smith
Rome's subsequent establishment of a papacy in place of the Rome patriarchate was a further effort to extend its credentials over the "lesser" ranks of patriarchs in the major Christian centers to the East. This issue of preeminence persists even today.
~ Graham E. Fuller