Quotes About Equilibrium

Le importava, le importava davvero di me, e a quell'idea non riuscivo a smettere di ridere, avendo trovato il mio inutile trionfo nella stordita follia del dolore. Anche se la foschia rossa di Kushiel mi velava la vista, anche se le fitte che provavo alla testa erano terribili, i miei pensieri erano chiari. L'equilibrio dei poteri era mutato, rendendoci, per una volta, pari.

We all need to keep a strong middle, my friend. The center is where balance resides, and if you're not in balance, you cannot expect to continue moving

The center is where balance resides, and if you're not in balance, you cannot expect to continue moving forward without a fall.

It was the year in which the two races approached a state of equilibrium: the Indians still owned the land and still controlled it, the buffalo were plentiful, and white soldiers had not yet begun to shoot at Indians they were fearful of, and peace was still possible.

The dominant pattern of history isn't stability, but instability; the dominant pattern of business isn't perpetuation of the incumbents, but triumph of the insurgents; the dominant pattern of capitalism isn't equilibrium, but what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as the "perennial gale of creative destruction

she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]

So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.

We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to the heat death of equilibrium and sameness.… This heat death in physics has a counterpart in the ethics of Kierkegaard, who pointed out that we live in a chaotic moral universe. In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and system.… Like the Red Queen, we cannot stay where we are without running as fast as we can.

Even when a damped, driven system is at equilibrium, it is not at equilibrium

There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that equilibrium, and the sense of security without which the freedoms we enjoy cannot exist.

It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better.

Mind and Soul are one and the same thing.

Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

I like stability.

I guess I crave stability.

Without justice you won't have stability.

Those who manage to keep the offensive and defensive balance are more successful. We search for balance in order to keep a stable level, which is the most difficult thing to do.