Daniel H. Pink

If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

American Author

Karan Mahajan

I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.

Indian Novelist

David Rittenhouse

In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time.

American Scientist

Ernest Shackleton

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

Irish Explorer

James Cosmo

I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

Scottish Actor

Thomas Carlyle

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Scottish Philosopher

Gregory Peck

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

American Actor

David Starkey

The reign of Henry VIII is the axis around which England turns.

English Historian

Charles de Gaulle

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

French Leader

Matteo Salvini

I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.

Italian Politician

Used to describe movement or rotation of objects in space.

Physical Motion

Axis can explain why we experience day and night.

Daily Motion

Axis can represent the key element that an idea or system is built around.

Foundation

Axis is often used in a metaphorical sense to describe pivotal or crucial concepts.

Metaphorical Pivot

In math and science, axis is a foundational part of graphs and charts.

Graphical Context

In three dimensions, including the z-axis is crucial for depth perception.

3D Reference

Axis can refer to specific historical military coalitions not just any alliance.

Historic Alliances

It's important to recognize that references to 'axis' can carry heavy historical weight.

Diplomatic Context

 On the horizontal axis is income inequality. The further to the right you go, the greater the income inequality. On the vertical axis are nine social and health metrics. The more you go up that, the worse the problems are, and those metrics include life expectancy, teenage pregnancy, literacy,

Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...

 Examples of characteristics include average sentence length, the arrangement of words, and even the number of occurrences of a particular word. Let's look at use of the word thee and visualize it as a dimension, or axis. Each of Shakespeare's works can be placed on that axis,

Did Shakespeare write...

 pushing against the floor to generate a tiny amount of new torque. At the same time, her arms sweep open to help her keep her balance. The turns are most effective if her center of gravity stays constant, and a skilled dancer will be able to keep her turning axis vertical.

The physics of the...

 axis is so they would be small object I wanted to be in make an opening that was objects but I didn't know the software well in mouse and it started to orbiting things around like a whole universe and it created this thing that I knew that that this was going to be either

Designing for TED...

 What's really disturbing is the trend line that goes through that because, of course, when it dips below the zero axis, there, it gets into a negative area. That's where you find people like me, I'm afraid. So the important thing here is that this can all be changed.

Stuart Firestein: The...

 The up-and-down axis tells the performer the pitch of the note or what note to play, and the left-to-right axis tells the performer the rhythm of the note or when to play it. Let's start with pitch. To help us out, we're going to use a piano,

How to read music - Tim...

 and that's important to know. But it turns out that even if you don't engage in any high-risk behavior, you're still more likely to develop heart disease or cancer. The reason for this has to do with the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis,

How childhood trauma...

 that we don't use on our cardinal points which is the center the axis mundi they believed everything were created from that Center they center themselves in the cosmos we have been working very hard on trying to find an entrance to

Inside Chichén Itzá -...

 things would be different. Earth's spin axis would now wander chaotically. There'd be episodes of rapid climate change -- not good for complex life. The moon is just the right big but not too big.

Where are all the...

 gaia spins on its axis it senses scanning the galaxy in all