Quotes About Cycles

Aside from the decorum of ancient thought as opposed to the coarseness of fresh ink, I have spent some time phrasing the idea in the mathematics of evolutionary arguments and conditional probability. For an idea to have survived so long across so many cycles is indicative of its relative fitness. Noise, at least some noise, was filtered out.

Theories are superfragile; they come and go, then come and go, then come and go again;

newspapers do not have to have a screaming headline saying that nothing new is taking place (though the Bible was smart enough to declare ein chadash tachat hashemesh—" nothing new under the sun," providing the information that things just do recur).

This, I will call the cross-sectional problem: At a given time in the market, the most successful traders are likely to be those that are best fit to the latest cycle. This does not happen too often with dentists or pianists—because these professions are more immune to randomness.

Next let me show how the future is mostly in the past.

They know that there's nothing to get excited about. The next meal. And a little something to kill now and then.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

My mom's really into astrology and she's always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.

I love graveyards. To some, it might sound morbid, but there's nothing dark about the natural cycles of life, really.

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.

Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things

You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make

siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar.

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.

Even those in the "functional adult" camp with relatively mild addictive tendencies often find that despite their best efforts and intentions, dark patterns repeat in their lives.

when the tide comes in, it's all good. But when the tide goes out, the mood that cannot and should not be named comes over you and into you. Because to name it would be an act of summoning.

Before the news and polling cycles accelerated, leaders assumed that the electorate understood reform was a long game. Not anymore. The digital age has shrunk the public attention span and lured government into making each thing it says appear to be a big idea. p225

A long summer always meant a long winter to come.

Kings rise and fall, Dunk thought, and cows and smallfolk go about their business.

The summers have been shorter since the last dragon died, and the winters longer and crueler.

Winter storms are worse, but autumn's are more frequent.