Pivot Of Quotes

#1. The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth.

Angela Carter

#2. What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#3. The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Luigi Pirandello

#4. He was a man of moods, yet he was her constant, something unchanging, infinitely reliable, the pivot of her life. There could never be anyone else. Without him she would not be more than half alive.

Winston Graham

#5. The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

Robin Trower

#6. Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

Edward De Bono

#8. When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

Adrianne Lee

#9. It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.

Nicole Krauss

#10. self-determination theory." Many theories of behavior pivot around a particular human tendency: We're keen responders to positive and negative reinforcements, or zippy calculators of our self-interest, or lumpy duffel bags of psychosexual conflicts.

Daniel H. Pink

#11. The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history

Alexander MacLaren

#12. But the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

Sam Altman

#13. Maybe he had become addicted after all - addicted to being the pivot point, to being as central as that crucial joint between copulating man and woman, but with a danger that did not know the bounds of orgasm.

Victor Robert Lee

#14. time and timing is a pivot that determines the real value of what we do or what we choose not to do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. When you decide to appreciate something, no matter how subtle, you absolutely do pivot and shift your vibration significantly.

Debbianne DeRose

#16. The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

Laini Taylor

#17. A pivot is a substantive change in one or more of the nine boxes of the business model canvas.

Steven Gary Blank

#18. An employee's inability to be wrong, obsessed with their personal agenda, or complacency with the comfort of their title and paycheck often keeps them stuck in selfish politics and silo mentalities.

Angela Lynne Craig

#19. I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

Ti-Grace Atkinson

#20. Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

Alan Shepard

#21. The faintest scraping-ticking arose as the knuckles of the hinge leafs turned against pivot pins in need of oil, and the door swung ever so slowly into the kitchen,

Dean Koontz

#22. The snowball of selfishness quickly becomes an avalanche.

Angela Lynne Craig

#23. And the Bastard grant us ... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#24. If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#25. If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

Sam Altman

#26. Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. Sometimes we don't pivot in the direction of personal success but toward even greater pain. But here's the catch: a calling will always lead you to a life that matters, one you can be proud of.

Jeff Goins

#28. In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

Tom Douglas