Hub Quotes

• The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.

  Bhagawan Nityananda

  Spiritual, Yoga, Heart

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• Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

  Laozi

  Wheels, Spokes

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• Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

  Alain de Botton

  Distance, Curiosity, Might

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• Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Essentials, Wagon Wheels, Wagons

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, World, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.165, Rodale

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• Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Running, Stress, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  Walt Whitman

  Squash, Little Things, Objects

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Wheels, Thirty

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• Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Earth, Planets

  Christopher Morley (1965). “Bright Cages: Selected Poems and Translations from the Chinese”

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• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Father, Priorities

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Peace, Crazy, Passion

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

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• The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

  William Hague

  Decision, World, Diffusion

  "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley, Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a city-hub for global Chinese who dis-identify with the People's Republic of China's construction of a Communist nationalist Chineseness, I called on the Chinese muse of writing to witness my emergence out of the academic woods.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Cities, People

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Fate, Long Ago

  "Tuck Everlasting". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• South Wales is a hub of aviation.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Aviation, Wales, South

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

  Leo Burnett

  Believe, Successful, Agency

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• Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.

  Achim Steiner

  Agendas, World, Environment

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• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  Alain de Botton

  Would Be, World, Ugly

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple.

  Kode9

  Apples, Sound, Bigs

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

  Oscar Wilde

  Accomplishment, Atmosphere, Culture

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Nashville, Favorites Things

  "Taylor Swift On Songwriting, Nashville & the Thrill of Spontaneous Music Making". Associated Press Interview, www.billboard.com. October 15, 2013.

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• To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Enemy, Victory, Movement

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• I dream of an India that is a hub of opportunities. We can't restrict ourselves to skills only, we need to encourage entrepreneurship.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Motivation, Opportunity

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• Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

  Irene Dunne

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Trying

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