Best Periphery Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.”

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They burn too weakly or are too far away to be seen directly, even if you stare. But you can see them out of the corner of your eye because the cells on the periphery of your retina are more sensitive to light. Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye.”

Ifs Looks Light Eye Night Stars Sides Sky Truth Is Shining Corners Cells Staring Sensitive Far Away Night Sky Periphery Stars In The Night Sky

Book:A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Source: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

“Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.”

Way Feels Has Beens Different Stage Position Seeking Different Ways Drag Secular Margins Periphery Secular Society Center Stage

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point.”

Way May Lines Principles Support Virtue All Things Circles Affected Periphery

Book:The Hieroglyphic Monad

Source: The Hieroglyphic Monad

“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.”

World Littles Has Beens Book Whole Values Found Written Childhood Materials Areas Historical Analysis Historian Imagery Neglected Chunks History Books Periphery Written History

Author:Lloyd deMause

“The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.”

Dues Empires Vitality Aristocracy British History Periphery

Author:Ronald Syme

“It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.”

“Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.”

World States Economy Productions Centre Global Economy Flux Mosaics World Economy Periphery

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.”

Form Numbers Cities Limits Quarters Urban Autonomous Small Numbers Federation Periphery

Author:Leon Krier

“White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.”

Speak White Example Bones Eggs Milk Periphery

Author:Kenya Hara

“An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.”

May Two Body Moving Language Arms Shapes Originals Proportion Pulling Dwarfs Periphery Tentacles Amoeba

Author:Charlton Laird

“It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.”

World Growing Mass Spring Regions Margins Arab World Periphery Arab Spring Shaping The Future

Author:Wadah Khanfar

“I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.”

People Needs May I Can Memories Numbers Careers Mets Extraordinary Back When Periphery

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils.”

Whole Wanted Used Sides Views Fronts Clubs Staring Punk Periphery

Author:James Wolcott

“I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.”

Way Actors Sound Directors Members Music Is Direct Dancing Communicate Release Tension Chairs Crew Good Way Playing Music Ipods Rigged Periphery Sound Systems

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces that are darker and dingier and more dangerous, more lonely. What comes out of there, to me, is the life force. I'm excited when the center reaches over to those places and pulls inspiration from them, and translates it for a lot of people.”

People Inspiration Force Space Dangerous Lonely Excited Translate Fringe Periphery

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!”

Source: Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft

“All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.”

Dies Direct Hatred Someday Rude Toes Periphery Brash

Author:Mel Brooks

“Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.”

Spiritual Christianity Innovation Islam Judaism Fragments Periphery

Author:James Small

“I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.”

People Values Process Love Is Groups Fame Thrive Periphery

Author:Kristen Stewart

“People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.”

People May Ideas Decision Levels Company Access Making Decisions Periphery

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).”

“I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.”

Commitment Periphery

Author:George Meyer

“As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.”

Needs Seems Eye Justice Perfect Beauty Vision Seeing Picks Shots Garden Sight Cameras Photographer Ugly Naked Ease Lenses Periphery Naked Eyes

Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos

Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos

“But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.”

“We live in a society which is heading in one direction, so it's good to have at least a few friends who share the same values and can encourage us and help us to remember that we're not alone or peculiar, but that what we're doing is a very valid way of life. This will encourage us to put the Dharma at the centre of our life and not the periphery, to use our daily life as our Dharma practice.”

Way Helping Use Remember Values Practice Our Lives Share Daily Life Peculiar Centre Not Alone Dharma Headings One Direction Few Friends Periphery

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or, I would call it, unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them, that sort of thing.”

Mean Nations Weapons Mass Destruction Threat Russia Unusual Principal Intimidating Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Periphery Unorthodox

Author:James Mattis

“I played all four years [at St. Mary's College] with - at a certain point, basketball became the thing I was doing most, but it was really in my periphery.”

Years Certain Four College Basketball Four Years Mary Periphery

Author:Mahershala Ali

“The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.”

Political Late Tools Financial Corruption Theology Posts Liberation Fallen Native Cracks Pope Vocabulary Modernity Marxist Argentina Colossal Rhetorical Periphery

Author:George Weigel

“The "encounter" with the people on the peripheries is intended to draw them into the circle of common care and concern - that call to encounter is, to use a favorite world of John Paul II's, a call to solidarity. And that means, it seems to me, aggressive Catholic efforts to empower the poor - and a profound Catholic challenge to all those cultural forces that are eroding stable families, which are the elementary schools where we learn to take responsibility for our lives, which is the highest exercise of freedom.”

“The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.”

Way Might Add Pope Emphasis Piety John Paul Periphery John Paul Ii Franciscans

Author:George Weigel

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

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”

“Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.”

Middle Shops Supermarkets Periphery

Author:Michael Pollan

“To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.”

“Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.”

Two Universe Space Darkness Forever Leaving Breathing Time And Space Expanding Blast Two Of Us Periphery

Author:Lauren Oliver

“In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't see his face, just his back as he walked away from me, leaving me in the blackness. No matter how fast I ran, I couldn't catch up to him; no matter how loud I called, he never turned. Troubled, I woke in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep again for what seemed like a very long time. After that, he was in my dreams nearly every night, but always on the periphery, never within reach.”

Long Matter Dream Light Faces Night Dark Sleep Middle Long Time Skins Leaving Loud Ran Every Night Leaving Me Blackness Middle Of The Night Within Reach Periphery

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.”

Way Should Humans Human Beings Perfection Strive Experiments Stations Periphery

Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

“Whenever you are in anger, remember yourself. In that very remembering the focus changes, the gestalt changes. You become more and more centred. Anger remains there just on the periphery of your being, but you know now that it is separate from you. You are not angry, you are only a witness to it. Now it is up to you to choose to be angry or not to be angry. You are no more identified; hence the freedom to choose.”

Knows Remember Focus Anger Remains Angry Witness Up To You Freedom To Choose Periphery Gestalt

Author:Rajneesh

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.”

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.”

Love Soul Wisdom Moving Spirit Meditation Yoga Silent Wheels Wellness Disturbed Axes Peace Within Periphery

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.”

Should Art Helping Force Healing Policy Identity Shapes Concern Response Individuality Driving Core Treated Division Carpe Diem Carpe Driving Force Periphery Divisiveness Frills

Author:Barbara Jordan

“Don`t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the center, fear always comes from the periphery; don`t allow this periphery to be dominant. And what have you got to lose? Even if there is no rebirth - there is rebirth - but I say even if there is no rebirth and you simply die, what have you got to lose? What will be lost?”

Ifs Dies Lost Fear Loses Dominant Rebirth Periphery

Author:Rajneesh

“Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.”

World Years Belief Easy Common Return Discipline Perfection Periphery

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.”

Humans Heart Names Concerned Originals Details Invention Nationalism Links Continuity Unborn Periphery Human Inventions

Author:John Berger

“If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.”

Ifs Persons Facts Differences Identity Surface Core Perceive Brotherhood Penetrate Periphery

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.”

Needs Kind Art Cutting Obvious Endowment Periphery Npr

Author:Sarah Palin

“We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.”

“True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.”

Spirit Lying Simple Progress Development Locals Initiative Centre Hierarchy Compounds Territorial Federation Periphery Decentralization

Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

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