Quotes About Dynamics

If you spend long enough with a bunch of guys, things will inevitably start to rankle. You're going to hate the way the singer comes into the room and opens the curtains 'cos he's done it too fast or whatever.

coalitional dynamics would predict that whatever outsiders do is often little concern to fundamentalists. What matters is what other members of the group are likely to do.

Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.

An epidemic exemplifies system dynamics. The more you can think systemically, the more you can follow the path of coins, art, religion, or disease. Understanding how coins travel along trade routes parallels analyzing the spread of a virus.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Here you seem to have won your aunt's affection; I think I served you well there, for I believe she would do anything to spite me.

Os calculistas, aqueles que vêem a vida como um jogo de astúcia que depende de uma cuidadosa avaliação de modos e meios, sempre sabem para onde estão indo e conseguem chegar lá. (...) Mas quando se trata de forças dinâmicas da vida e daqueles que personificam essas forças, tudo se torna mais difícil. As pessoas que desejam apenas atingir a auto-realização jamais sabem para onde estão indo. Nem podem sabê-lo.

We have seen a few examples of teams trying to have one person serve as both scrum master and product owner. In all the cases we have seen, this has failed.

These women are a little afraid of Mrs. Murphy, I can see. Over the course of dinner I notice that she can be snappish and short-tempered, and she likes to be the boss. When one of them expresses an opinion she disagrees with, she looks around at the group and gathers allies for her position. But she is nothing but kind to me.

Feelings can even kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

But Nikolay was brimming with such innocent good humour that now and then even the husband fell prey to his exuberance. Towards the end of the evening, however, as the wife's face grew redder and livelier, the husband's grew steadily paler and sadder. It was as if they had been issued with a limited amount of vivacity between them, and as the wife's share of it rose, the husband's dwindled away.

If a system is chaotic (most are), then it implies that however good the resolving power may be, the time over which the system is predictable is limited. Perfect predictability is not achievable, simply because we are limited in our resolving power.

France went to a Dr. Nancy Peters, and as part of her therapy she kept a notebook in which she grappled with her own various family dynamics. She also wrote about Louise, whom she described as "the firebrand, the disturber, the quicksilver, ranting or magnificent, at my side." In the same entry, she wrote, "I have to learn to fight, because I want to keep Louise.

Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.

Competition between men is a fuel that's useful to us. We have to be careful that it doesn't tell the same story over too many times, but it's amazing how durable that story is.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

He filled the camp with fellow ecstasy fanatics, free spirits, and babes. There was more than enough sensuality to be had, but three guys in their sixties traveling with the wives of their close friends was like traveling with private detectives.

Thus arises the solution proposed by the so-called Gestalt psychology: behaviour involves a total field embracing subject and objects, and the dynamics of this field constitutes feeling (Lewin), while its structure depends on perception, effector-functions, and intelligence.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.