Hub Quotes:

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

- Walt Whitman

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

topic: Squash, Little Things, Hub

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

- Laozi

topic: Wheels, Spokes, Hub

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

- Bhagawan Nityananda

topic: Yoga, Heart, Sacred, Spiritual Awakening, Sacred Places

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

topic: Distance, Curiosity, Might, Extending, Hub

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

topic: Essentials, Wagon Wheels, Wagons, Hub

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

topic: Wall, Home, Essence, Space Between, Windows And Doors

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

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

topic: Mind, World, May, Hub

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

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Running, Stress, Mean, Hub

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

- Laozi

topic: Taoism, Wheels, Thirty, Hub

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

- Christopher Morley

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

topic: Men, Earth, Planets, Hub

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

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

topic: Mom, Father, Priorities, Takeoff, Scheduling

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

topic: Peace, Crazy, Passion, Eat Love Pray, Hub

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

topic: Decision, World, Centre, Civilisation, Diffusion

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

source: "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.

topic: Writing, Cities, People, Hub

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 summer's day, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.

- Natalie Babbitt

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

topic: Summer, Fate, Long, Life Together, Mysterious Ways

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

- Bruce Dickinson

topic: Aviation, Wales, Hub

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

topic: Believe, Successful, Agency, Hub

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

topic: World, Agendas, Environment, Geneva, Hub

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

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

topic: Would Be, World, Ugly, Logistics, Soulless

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

- Kode9

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

topic: Apples, Sound, Bigs, Hub

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. 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. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

- Oscar Wilde

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

topic: New York, Dine In, Philadelphia, Bustle, Bostonians

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

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

topic: Thinking, Nashville, Favorites Things, Hub

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

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Enemy, Victory, Movement, Center Of Gravity, Hub

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

topic: Dream, Motivation, Opportunity, Hub

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

- Irene Dunne

topic: Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Trying, Hub

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

- Oveta Culp Hobby

topic: Strong, Circles, Numbers, Meaning Life, Rims

We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium of new information leading from primal superstition to final exactitude. We know that the sun is hub of our little corner of the universe, and that ties of genealogy connect all living things on our planet, because these theories assemble and explain so much otherwise disparate and unrelated information not because Galileo trained his telescope on the moons of Jupiter or because Darwin took a ride on a Galápagos tortoise.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "A Foot Soldier for Evolution", p. 441, 1993.

topic: Moon, Views, Ties, Exactitude, Gals

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

- Dhani Jones

topic: New York, Squares, Cities, Times Square, Hub

It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.

- Paul Oakenfold

source: Source: www.etonline.com

topic: America, Vegas, Ibiza, Hub

We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

source: "Man's Quest For God: Studies In Prayer And Symbolism". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, p. 7, 1954.

topic: Prayer, Self, Different, Self Consciousness, Hub

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

- Mel Torme

topic: Theatre, Broadway, Radio, Hub

Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.

- Ellen Galinsky

source: Ellen Galinsky (1987). “The Six Stages of Parenthood”, Da Capo Press

topic: Running, Children, Expectations, Hub

The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest. Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.....

- Anne LaBastille

topic: Good Life, Thinking, Reflection, Wellspring, Health And Fitness

When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Growing Up, Dark, Thinking, Cosmopolitanism, Des Moines

Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.

- Rajneesh

topic: Jealousy, Ambition, Support, Possessiveness, Intertwined

We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

source: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dog, Cat, Hierarchy, Rims, Hub

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

- Diane Glancy

source: Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.75, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Mold, Use, Jello, Torque, Hub

digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

- Steve Jobs

topic: Moving, Technology, Clouds, Hub

The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend.

- Russell T Davies

topic: Moon, Doctors, Rose, Hub

Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

topic: Mother, Dancing, Water, Water Of Life, Water Is Life

Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted. Most brands will need to court a range of different communities and travel across pools, webs, and hubs if they want to reach the full range of desired consumers.

- Henry Jenkins

topic: Couple, Technology, Community, Hub

When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is no point. You never move, so what is the point of travelling the whole earth? You remain the same; then desires slow down. One day it happens: the wheel is as silent, as unmoving as the hub. That is the point when enlightenment happens.

- Rajneesh

topic: Dream, Moving, Desire, Hub

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

- C. Wright Mills

topic: Paris, America, Rome, Hub

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Hard Times, Choices, Want, Hub

Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

- Laozi

topic: Life, Cutting, Doors, Hub

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Hate, Looks, Bigs, Hub

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Fiction, Hub

Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Team, People, Leader, Rims, Wagon Wheels

FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

- Gary Goodyear

topic: Unique, Community, Southern, Ontario, Hub

I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.

- Nalo Hopkinson

source: Source: www.sfsignal.com

topic: Mean, People, Community, Hub