Equilibrium Quotes - Page 8

• You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Thinking, Had Enough

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility. There's distortion, and it's hurting our society. And as a result of that, there will be forces that, one way or another, are going to naturally bring that into equilibrium.

  Ray Dalio

  Hurt, Media, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Men, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Intuition, Aluminum, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after novelties. In other words, be guided by new desires, not by extant needs.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Running, Desire, Needs

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

  Ben Folds

  Art, Trying, Mindset

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we have done in the Middle East are contributing to a potential explosion region-wide. And if that explosion gets out of hand, we may end up being bogged down for many years to come in a conflict that will be profoundly damaging to our capacity to exercise our power, to address the problems implicit in this global awakening, and we may face a world in which much of the world turns away from us, seeks its own equilibrium, but probably slides into a growing chaos.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Exercise, America, Hands

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

  David Rockwell

  Design, Stories, Achieve

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions

  Ilya Prigogine

  Order, Principles, Structure

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• Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Nature, Science, Men

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• We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.

  Paul Ormerod

  Thinking, Needs, Machines

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Zero, Integrity, Negative

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• Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You can picture price fluctuations around an equilibrium level as a rubber band being stretched -- if it gets pulled too far, eventually it will snap back. As a short-term trader, I try to wait until the rubber band is stretched to its extreme point.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Waiting, Trying, Band

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• A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

  George Santayana

  Mind, Suffering, Body

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.33, MIT Press

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• The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Ideas, Movement

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

  Hans Arp

  Dark, Artist, Light

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• It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Psychics, Play

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

  Machado de Assis

  Two, Noses, Individual

  Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

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• Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.

  George Soros

  Country, Swings, Balls

  "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered". Book by George Soros, 1998.

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• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fall, Self, Long

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, (Ch. 10), 1897.

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• For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

  Paul Keating

  Kevin, Lasts, Firsts

  "Keating Criticises Alp Over Compulsory Super Plan". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 05, 2007.

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• The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Loss, Gains, Commodity

  1871 The Theory of Political Economy.

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• The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a world in which there is no future and hence no uncertainty.

  Paul Ormerod

  People, World, Environment

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand.

  Paul Ormerod

  Example, Unemployment, Levels

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.

  Robert Aumann

  Strong, Justice, Sometimes

  "Contributions to the Theory of Games IV, Annals of Mathematics Study 40". Book edited by A. W. Tucker and R. D. Luce, 1959.

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