Quotes About Cycles

Markets tend to always overshoot when they get really ebullient.

Time is actually speeding up (or collapsing). For thousands of years the Schumann Resonance or pulse (heartbeat) of Earth has been 7.83 cycles per second. The military have used this as a very reliable reference. However, since 1980 this resonance has been slowly rising. It is now over 12 cycles per second! This means there is the equivalent of less than 16 hours per day instead of the old 24 hours.

When a software development process moves to daily test cycles, we gain the benefits of smaller changes, fewer open bugs, faster feedback, and faster cycle time.

Nihil sub sole novum

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

Tiene uno, como la naturaleza, sus estaciones, sus ciclos de vida? En el curso de quince o veinte días pasa una primavera y un verano en el fondo del alma, y luego viene un día violento en que nos quedamos sin hojas, y fríos, e inmóviles.

All living things respond to the same 24-hour rhythm, in tandem with the Earth's rotation. Halberg coined the terms "chronobiology"—the influence of time and certain periodic cycles on biological function—and "circadian" (from Latin circa = about; and dies = day) for daily biological rhythms. He created the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota and became known

Tears came, and fell. Above us, the constellations spun, and the moon paced her weary course.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.

The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Moving on is not forgetting the person you love most. Moving on is all about accepting the world. What goes around, comes around in your life.

Life is a circle of Happiness, Sadness, Hard times, good times. If you are having hard times have faith that good times are on the way.

An organism arises when the loop of circulating energy somehow closes on itself to give a regenerating, reproducing life cycle within which energy is mobilised, remaining stored as it is mobilised. The energy goes into complex cascades of coupled cyclic processes within the system before it is allowed to dissipate to the outside. These cascades of cycles span the entire gamut of space-times from slow to fast, from local to global, that all together, make up the life cycle.

La història mai no es repeteix, però hom diria que tot sovint es complau a jugar amb els mateixos elements.

Y ya no deseaba sino quedarse crucificada a la tierra, sufriendo y gozando en su carne el ir y venir de lejanas, muy lejanas mareas; sintiendo crecer la hierba, emerger islas nuevas y abrirse en otro continente la flor ignorada que no vive sino en un día de eclipse. Y sintiendo aún bullir y estallar soles, y derrumbarse, quién sabe dónde, montañas gigantes de arena.

On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:

On a farm you learn to respect nature, particularly for the wisdom of its dark underworld. When you sow things in the spring, you commit them to the darkness of the soil.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

There's a passage in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" that does a pretty good job describing California's rainfall patterns: The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful years when there might be 19 to 25 inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of 12 to 16 inches of rain. And then the dry years would come ...

Seems like our life's over and done. No, it ain't, Ma smiled. It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I noticed that. Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk -- gets a farm an' loses a farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, like eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.