Quotes About Equilibrium

Torn between obsessive insecurity and proselytizing zeal, between the requirements of Europe and the temptations of Asia, the Russian Empire always had a role in the European equilibrium but was never emotionally a part of it.

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

O mundo que despontava com a Guerra Fria ia assentar os seus equilíbrios na conduta e no armamento de duas superpotências: os Estados Unidos, além Atlântico, e a União Soviética

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo

A bridge has no allegiance to either side.

A market exchange has an equilibrium or stasis: you pay to balance the scale. But when you give a gift there is momentum, and the weight shifts from body to body.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

The four opposing forces in any novel are atmosphere, plot, character and pace. But they don't have to be in equilibrium. You can have a book without any plot or pace at all, but it has to make up for it in character and a bit of atmosphere—like The Old Man and the Sea. Most thrillers are plot and pace and nothing else, such as Where Eagles Dare. But it doesn't matter; each to a reader's own—

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

The balance of terror is the terror of balance.

e, assim como as sociedades primitivas foram devastadas pela explosão por não terem sabido controlar durante mais tempo o processo implosivo, assim nossas culturas começam a ser devastadas pela implosão por não terem sabido controlar e equilibrar o processo explosivo.

Thought can no longer keep itself in a critical equilibrium. It has to be spread eagled between violent nostalgia and violent anticipation. Of course we should dream of all women. There isn't one of them who wouldn't be offended if a man didn't dream of all of them through her.

I am neither cheerful nor sad. But i can be completely the one or completely the other to excess.

But these structures, forming different levels, are to be regarded as succeeding one another according to a law of development, such that each one brings about a more inclusive and stable equilibrium for the processes that emerge from the preceding level.

Formal logic, or logistics, is simply the axiomatics of states of equilibrium of thought, and the positive science corresponding to this axiomatics is none other than the psychology of thought.

I can hold you up with one hand, but you can balance me on your fingertips.

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.