Center of Gravity Quotes

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the center of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

Step not beyond the beam of the balance.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

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

It is hard to make an empty sack stand upright.

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.

On the RFactor model that comes with the 'Pro-Sim,' everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you're on a race weekend.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

In a rally car when you put a 20 kg spare wheel in a car which is weighing 1,300 kg, you feel it.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

Those who stand on their toes are not steady.