Quotes About Stability

There seems to be a time scale in all natural processes beyond which structural stability and calculability become incompatible. In planetary mechanics this scale is of such an extent that the incompatibility is not evident, whereas in quantum mechanics it is so short that the incompatibility is immediately felt, and today the physicist sacrifices structural stability for computability. I hope that he will not have cause to regret this choice.

The problem of stability is then: Is the collection of structurally stable vector fields everywhere dense in the space B of all vector fields? A partial answer has been obtained recently: yes, when dimension m is less than or equal to 2 (Peixoto[18]), no when dimension m is greater than or equal to 4(Smale[22]), or 3 (Smale and Williams[24]).

Notice that the mind, in all its changes, has a changeless background." Hale Dwoskin

Q: Explain the concept of homeostasis? A: It is when you stay at home all day and don't go out.

La gerencia tiene mucho más que ver con el mantenimiento de los procesos, las disciplinas y los sistemas que con el cambio de los mismos. Un buen líder, en cambio, aunque mantiene la estabilidad, debe tener la visión, la creatividad y sobre todo la capacidad para influir en sus colaboradores con el fin de que lo apoyen en los retos que implica llevar a una organización a territorios inexplorados, donde abundan los riesgos.

Following through and establishing a baseline of unspoiling takes more work than does maintaining it.

If instead you allow the times of your child's feedings, playtimes, baths, and other activities to change constantly, chances are his sleep will become irregular as well.

In any case, there is no reason to think that civil unions and private arrangements, religious and otherwise, cannot provide as much protection of children as official marriage does. If children need material support, that support can be required directly through legal institutions. If children need stable homes, the question is whether an official licensing scheme with the name marriage contributes enough to family stability to be worth the candle. Maybe

Marriage might be seen, in part, as a solution to a self-control problem, in which people take steps to increase the likelihood that their relationship will endure. If divorce is difficult, then marriages are more likely to be stable. Marital stability is usually good for children (though children can also benefit from the end of a bad marriage).

Economic theory textbooks would stop on the first page if the assumption of well-ordered preferences had to be abandoned, because without stable preferences there is nothing to be optimized.

I will try to be consistent, no longer oscillating like some planet that has lost its way. For, at long last, I have found my sun.

Let other trees do the work of the world. Let the Beech stand, where still it holds its ground

To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.

Salvation for Paul is an ontological and cosmological message (which is solid) before it ever becomes a moral or psychological one (which is always unstable).

Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure.

I love the past so much because I love the present. I know I have to go into the world and become shaped, altered, bent, myself-individuated-and that there will be pain and joy in the process. I am not the land itself, neither am I a clone of my family. But the magnitude of my attachment to these things-and the stability it affords-staggers me.

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

I want to build some thing permanent.

Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency...

The idea of living in the same house for all your childhood and having the same knot of devoted friends seemed magical to me, who had lived in thirteen different places by the time I was thirteen.

Despite my profound and continuing fascination with decadence and decay, with where dead humans lose their bones, I'm more stable than I've been in a very long time. But don't start imagining that everything's okay with me. Or the opposite.

In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft"—"There is strength in calm

lower dose, which, like the building codes in California that are designed to prevent damage from earthquakes, allowed my mind and emotions to sway a bit.

sentiments which Feliks had already come to recognise as being characteristic of The Times, which would have described the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as strong rulers who could do nothing but good for the stability of the international situation.