Continuity Quotes

• Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Jesus, Commitment, Order

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• The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

  Michael Porter

  Levels, Easier, Made

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• One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Celebrate, Feels, Knows

  "Transcript: CNN interviews Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan". Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Unity, Invention

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• The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

  Michael Porter

  Facts, Improvement, Consistent

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• Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.

  Wernher von Braun

  Inspirational, Death, Spiritual

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

  Michael Porter

  Strategy

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• Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

  Dean Rusk

  Air, Doe, Situation

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• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

  Germaine Greer

  Dark, Lakes, Light

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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• Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Science, Law

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1916). “New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen”

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• Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Running, Work, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Journey, Dancing

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• Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

  Li Ka-shing

  Strong, Inspiration, Innovation

  "6 skills of self-made millionaires everyone should use" by Adam Toren, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2016.

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• The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Organization, Challenges

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• At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Age, Sound, Nuclear

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• Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

  Robert Vaughn

  Believe, Men, Form

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• Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Change

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

  Tom Stoppard

  Funny, Ghetto, Continuity Of Life

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• Children need continuity as they grow and learn.

  Thomas Menino

  Children, Needs, Grows

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• The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Betrayal, Issues, Games

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• Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Sibling, Individual Work, World

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• It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

  Dave Edmunds

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• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

  George Orwell

  War, Civilization, Cities

  1945 In the Observer, 8 Apr.

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• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Divergent

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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• I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

  Michael King

  Issues, Common Sense, Able

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