Top 1200 Center Of Attention Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

I always dreamed of being on center court, playing the best in the world.

When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.

I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center.

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

Special things happen when you center people who haven't been centered before.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

No center would be great without the right people around him.

Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

I do play in a spread offense and in order to translate into the NFL, I'll have to take snaps under center.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

Of course, the Globe will be an international educational center as well as a theater.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

Whenever I record something, I always believe that it's worthy of inclusion in the pantheon, and I would certainly like pianists to pay more attention to it. I think it's ridiculous now, because the range of repertoire - or what's considered 'safe' - is so narrow, even though there are pianists who are really trying to push the envelope. There is still a lack of attention, and there's no reason for it. The piano repertoire is so rich, with so many wonderful things that still are not given their due.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

Darren Erstad was special to watch when he moved from center field from first base.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.

Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.

I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.

If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.

The Great Seal has got it all - everything liberals despise is there, front and center.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.

Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.