Quotes About Stability

The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war.

China's ruling party, as firmly in control of the government as ever, attracts foreign companies and enormous direct investment by guaranteeing the stability of a police state and by supplying a docile workforce that labors with minimum rights, commonly for extended hours under severe discipline, and is housed in substandard conditions.

Religion stabilizes us and reassures us. Revelation destabilizes and disturbs us.

survivors? Torture them? Or maybe a stable boy was too unimportant to even be noticed. Maybe he'd wake up in the morning, muck out the stalls, feed and water the horses as usual, the new masters no different from the old. But he

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

The enemy of stability can be complacency

A low wage business is always insecure.

In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

Everyone has known what it's like to see their dreams crumble. But these women...have found something more stable to hang onto. They're not content and fulfilled because circumstances turned out the way they hoped, but because of their faith in a God who is above circumstance.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

A well-managed plant, I soon learned, is a quiet place. A factory that is "dramatic," a factory in which the "epic of industry" is unfolded before the visitor's eyes, is poorly managed. A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change. It must be organized for innovation.

We divide the evolving system into two parts. One is the inertial part-the processes that tend to keep the population the same from one time period to the next.

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

If our faith rests on God's veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle?