Equilibrium Quotes - Page 10

• No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.

  Francois Hollande

  Europe, Banner, Notion

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• True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose.

  Caroline Emelia Stephen

  Mind, Inward, Vacancy

  Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Feelings, Balance

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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• For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

  Alexander McQueen

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

  Michael Crichton

  Moving, Jurassic Park, May

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

  Karel Capek

  Roots, Waiting, Miracle

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• Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

  Dean Koontz

  Loneliness, Reflection, Doors

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.91, Bantam

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• If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Trying, Rats, Normal

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.210, Random House

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• Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

  Neal Shusterman

  Sharks, Aquariums, Space

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

  Matt Ridley

  Forever, Genetics, States

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• I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

  Gayle Forman

  Giving, Pay, Theory

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• When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

  Gayle Forman

  Law, Withdrawal, Deposits

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• In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Progressive Society

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

  Piet Mondrian

  Expression, Opposites, Two

  Piet Mondrian, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.) (1965). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art”

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• The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

  George Soros

  Reality, Self, Financial

  "My Interview with George Soros: End of Financial Crisis Could Be in Sight". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2008.

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• The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Psychics, Balance

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Pride

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• Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of the ractions to those actions man has never had. This my Father-Mother holds inviolate. These cannot become man's except through modifying his actions until the reactions are their exact equal and opposite in equilibrium.

  Walter Russell

  Mother, Father, Men

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• Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Government, Order, Pressure

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• Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.
  (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

  John Ralston Saul

  Rights, Giving, Protection

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• The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

  Pierre Reverdy

  Unstable

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• Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

  Muriel Lester

  Friday, Sight, Evil

  Muriel Lester (1947). “It So Happened”

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• At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance.

  Geoffrey Hodson

  Heart, Ideas, Law

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• Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Business, Law, Giving

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.168, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as stone.

  Laozi

  Humility, Compassion, Men

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