#center

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#center #excellent #giving #i #retreat

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center. ↗

— Jim Otto

#center #everyday #field #i #walked

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#center #i #life #original #out

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#beginning #being #center #completely #devoted

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York. ↗

— Roddy McDowall

#east #fortunately #go #happened #i

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#become #becoming #center #coming #egypt

It is the perfect contradiction: It is glamorous and degenerate, cultured and crude, beautiful and detestable, ethical and decadent, exciting and scary all at the same time. ↗

— Leslie Haskin

#beauty

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#narcissism #paranoia #self-centeredness #imagination