Top 1200 Center Of Attention Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

I find it so strange that I throw people off-center.

It's true that there are younger people making films, and there are different kinds of films. This has created some attention in what's coming out of Greece, and people like to find a way to name this new ethnic cinema. It's not like there's a movement, or a common philosophy in making these films. They're just things that happened, and now people are paying attention to it.

I'm too athletic to play the dunker role at center.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others in the end reaches to the heights of happiness. That's why I am saying that someone who tries to give happiness develops the center of happiness inside himself, and someone who tries to bring unhappiness to others develops the center of unhappiness inside himself.

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay awake." "Pay attention." But paying attention is no simple matter. It requires us not to be distracted by expectations, past experiences, labels, and masks. It asks that we not jump to early conclusions and that we remain open to surprise.

If I have to play at center back, I'll do it without any problems.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.

I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won't accept it.

I can play in the center, on the right and occasionally on the left side.

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.

The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.

When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That's wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal.

One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.

I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.

Pominville is going to have to open a planned parenthood center!

The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.

Make joy and happiness the center of your world.

Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong.

A city of homes should not be built as a business center.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

I would put myself towards left of center.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

I think there's a special relationship between the center and quarterback.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

I was the youngest of the house that I grew up in, so I feel like as the youngest you have it pretty good. At the same time, I guess I required a lot of attention, being afraid of so many different things. So I was never seeking attention; I wanted the opposite. I just knew that when I saw Michael Jackson on the television screen once, it was, like, "That's it! That's what I'm doing for the rest of my life." I never questioned that.

It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

I'm the guy who needs to be front and center. I joined a fraternity to do that.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

All my books center around death in some way.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

It's a bad strategy to have an identity-based strategy on the left. De-emphasizing identity all-around would help our politics because we would have to pay more attention to the issues. We may have to pay more attention to class if we didn't have these self-defeating identity agendas.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...