Following is our list of the most famous locus quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational locus quotes. Hopefully, these locus quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your locus knowledge!
What is here is elsewhere, what is not here is nowhere. — Moroccan Proverbs
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes. — Barry Lopez
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. — Tabitha King
Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then. — Egyptian Proverbs
Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon. — Curly Howard
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. — Rumi
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. — Lao Tzu
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. — Peter Robert Fleming
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory. — Aldo Rossi
A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit? — Jacques Lacan
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity. — Kenneth Waltz
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do. — Theodore Dalrymple
The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values. — David Korten
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation. — John Seely Brown
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture. — Wes Jackson
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan. — Eric Reeves
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished — Albert Bandura
The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death. — Margaret M. Lock
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it. — Richard Shusterman
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windows...the displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcity...mimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity. — Jean Baudrillard
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. — Ron Chernow
When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country. — Naomi Wolf
For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles. — Charles Stross
How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love. — Sam Harris
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus. — Anuj
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast. — Andrew O'Hagan
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community? — Betty Friedan
Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement. — Stephanie Mills
We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ. — Karl Barth
When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself. — Jef Raskin
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. — Marilynne Robinson
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication. — Thomas Berry
The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America. — William Stringfellow
Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole. — Corliss Lamont
Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. — Edward Abbey
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason — Steven Pinker
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there. — Jennifer Egan
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of locus quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about locus to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of locus quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
