Quotes about Continuity

Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Votes: 5

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. Votes: 5

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations. Votes: 5

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. Votes: 5

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace. Votes: 5

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart. Votes: 4

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. Votes: 4

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Votes: 4

Continuity is boring. Votes: 3

Continuity is how you build a physique, Votes: 3

Children need continuity as they grow and learn. Votes: 3

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst. Votes: 3

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky. Votes: 3

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction. Votes: 3

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. Votes: 3

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. Votes: 3

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. Votes: 3

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to. Votes: 3

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks. Votes: 3

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. Votes: 3

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. Votes: 3

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. Votes: 3

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am. Votes: 3

If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this! Votes: 3

If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic. Votes: 3

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. Votes: 3

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving. Votes: 2

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. Votes: 2

The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition. Votes: 2

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity. Votes: 2

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security. Votes: 2

I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society. Votes: 2

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. Votes: 2

I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity. Votes: 2

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future. Votes: 2

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. Votes: 2

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught. Votes: 2

Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. Votes: 2

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. Votes: 1

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity. Votes: 0

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect. Votes: 0

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity. Votes: 0

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity. Votes: 0

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer. Votes: 0

It helps to know there is going to be continuity. Votes: 0

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. Votes: 0

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. Votes: 0

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan. Votes: 0

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships Votes: 0

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune. Votes: 0

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. Votes: 0

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. Votes: 0

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season. Votes: 0

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured. Votes: 0

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity. Votes: 0

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too. Votes: 0

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. Votes: 0

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. Votes: 0

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes. Votes: 0

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process. Votes: 0

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. Votes: 0

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history. Votes: 0

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. Votes: 0

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. Votes: 0

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. Votes: 0

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity. Votes: 0

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. Votes: 0

He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy. Votes: 0

I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot. Votes: 0

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind. Votes: 0

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends. Votes: 0

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. Votes: 0

You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous. Votes: 0

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. Votes: 0

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception. Votes: 0

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. Votes: 0

It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity. Votes: 0

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. Votes: 0

In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst. Votes: 0

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. Votes: 0

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push. Votes: 0

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing. Votes: 0

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. Votes: 0

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. Votes: 0

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. Votes: 0

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. Votes: 0

Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that. Votes: 0

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. Votes: 0

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. Votes: 0

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity. Votes: 0

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. Votes: 0

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now. Votes: 0

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. Votes: 0

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. Votes: 0

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Votes: 0

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away. Votes: 0

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? Votes: 0

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. Votes: 0

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly. Votes: 0

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. Votes: 0

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels. Votes: 0

The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been. Votes: 0

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point. Votes: 0

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity. Votes: 0

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it. Votes: 0

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. Votes: 0

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. Votes: 0

Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state. Votes: 0

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons. Votes: 0

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application. Votes: 0

That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches. Votes: 0

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity. Votes: 0

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations. Votes: 0

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them. Votes: 0

Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other. Votes: 0

Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. Votes: 0

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways. Votes: 0

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...! Votes: 0

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. Votes: 0

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope. Votes: 0

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility. Votes: 0

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees. Votes: 0

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity. Votes: 0

On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across multiple titles. Votes: 0

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you. Votes: 0

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love. Votes: 0

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Votes: 0

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. Votes: 0

There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world. Votes: 0

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. Votes: 0

It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing. Votes: 0

Who values the past lives sentimentally.Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.Who solves complexity opens continuity." Votes: 0

Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years. Votes: 0

Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable. Votes: 0

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be. Votes: 0

Who values the past lives sentimentally.Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.Who solves complexity opens continuity. Votes: 0

Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. Votes: 0

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie. Votes: 0

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo. Votes: 0

Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past. Votes: 0

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity. Votes: 0

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception. Votes: 0

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception. Votes: 0

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception. Votes: 0

To insure the continuity of philanthropy, we must instill in kids the values and attitudes that will enable them to see charity as a vital part of their lives. Votes: 0

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life. Votes: 0

I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music. Votes: 0

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction. Votes: 0

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members. Votes: 0

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult. Votes: 0

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery. Votes: 0

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it. Votes: 0

The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety. Votes: 0

Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable. Votes: 0

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history. Votes: 0

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity. Votes: 0

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power. Votes: 0

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity. Votes: 0

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity. Votes: 0

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership. Votes: 0

Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization. Votes: 0

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana. Votes: 0

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected Votes: 0

Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going. Votes: 0

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now. Votes: 0

People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV. Votes: 0

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it. Votes: 0

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. Votes: 0

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled. Votes: 0

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture. Votes: 0

There is much evidence indicating that the Capitalistic and Communist conspiracies BOTH are directed by a single master conspiracy which may have continuity with the Order of the Illuminati which was founded 200 years ago... Votes: 0

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future). Votes: 0

In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0