Continuity Quotes
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.
I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
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.
Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
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.
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.
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.
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.
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.
Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.
Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
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.
Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.
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.
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.
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.
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.
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.
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.
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.
Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.
Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
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.
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
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.
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.
Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon
The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis
Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
