Quotes About Stability

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

When you in the positive light and good space, do everything to keep it that way and be real careful what you say and how you move because your world can come crashing down on you.

Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill. They will not be contained.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.

Every thing has changed but my mind never.

Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.

the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same

She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.

Because sooner or later, all kinds of love - crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.

As long as you have at least one thing anchoring you, you can't get too lost.

When everything else is shattering, you feel like the one true constant.

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

There is no intermediate state between ice and water but there is one between life and death: employment.

Nation-states like war; city-states like commerce; families like stability; and individuals like entertainment

And as an essayist, I am not judged by other writers, book editors, and book reviewers, but by readers. Readers? Maybe, but wait a minute…not today's readers. Only those of tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. So, my only real judge being time, it is the stability and robustness of the readership (that is, future readers) that counts.

the cycles of risk taking in the economy as following a pattern: stability and absence of crises encourage risk taking, complacency, and lowered awareness of the possibility of problems. Then

stability is not good for the economy: firms become very weak during long periods of steady prosperity devoid of setbacks, and hidden vulnerabilities accumulate silently under the surface—so delaying crises is not a very good idea.

Outcomes are paradoxically more stable under the minority rule—the variance of the results is lower and the rule is more likely to emerge independently across separate populations.

Uma das contingências da vida: não existe estabilidade sem volatilidade.

the total losses for the ten banks would be close to nothing.

things are starting to be brought under control today;

Siempre es preferible optar por aquellas cosas que funcionan desde hace mucho tiempo, pues es más probable que ya hayan alcanzado su estado ergódico. Y, de todos modos, en el peor de los casos, el problema sería que no sabemos cuánto durarán.* Recordemos que la carga de la prueba recae en quien perturba un sistema complejo y no en la persona que protege el statu quo.

because these professions are more immune to randomness.