Continuity Quotes - Page 9

• The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Flow, Break

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.144, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Historical, Understanding, May

  William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”

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• For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

  Marcel Proust

  School, Continuity Of Life, Strife

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.266, Modern Library

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• For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

  Margaret Mead

  Reflection, Ideas, Political

  "Continuities in Cultural Evolution". Book by Margaret Mead, 1964.

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• The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

  Terry Eagleton

  Past, Viewpoints, Form

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Reflection, Past, Equality

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• The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Fortune, Depends

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.630

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• There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Two, Evil, Labyrinth

  "Théodicée". Preface to the book by Gottfried Leibniz, 1710.

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• Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.

  Paul P. Enns

  Heaven, Millennials, Earth

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.93, Moody Publishers

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• In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.

  Yamada Koun

  Drinking, Sleep, Laughing

  Koun Yamada (2005). “The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.

  E. B. White

  New York, Passion, Night

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.

  James F. Bell, III

  Jobs, Effort, Balance

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• In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

  John Eccles

  Sleep, Self, Order

  "Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain: The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism" by Donald E. Watson and Bernard O. Williams, 2003.

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• All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

  Adolf Hitler

  Trust, Betrayal, Lying

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Different, Consciousness

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There's no real continuity of care.

  Chris Viehbacher

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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• We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

  Oliver Sacks

  Life, Stories, Existence

  Oliver Sacks (1998). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, History, United States

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• Continuity is how you build a physique.

  Frank Zane

  Physique

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• How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Brain, Stability

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• Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Three, Statistics

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• As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader, the bartender-what they wear, how they deal with people, the simple continuity of their presence. As you do that you'll see how you affect them , and you'll play and act accordingly. You need to study the reality of the moment, and that is very rarely about studying modes and intervals.

  Pat Martino

  Simple, Reality, Play

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• Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Self, Giving, Constant

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• Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Responsibility, Numbers

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• As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

  Dick Cheney

  Time, Government, President

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