Quotes About Stability

Investors who focus on currencies, bonds, and stock markets generally assume a normal distribution of price changes: values jiggle up and down, but extreme moves are unusual. Of course, extreme moves are possible, as financial crashes show. But between 1985 and 2015, the S&P 500 stock index budged less than 3 percent from its starting point on 7,663 out of 7,817 days; in other words, for fully 98 percent of the time, the market is remarkably stable.

Since the creation of the five families in 1931, the Lucchese borgata had proved to be the most stable and least divisive of the New York families.

Our culture works hard to prevent change.

Your business has to work when it's small in order to survive to the point where it gets big.

If you actually work for an organization that insists you be mediocre, that enforces conformity in all its employees, why stay? What are you building? The work can't possibly be enjoyable or challenging, your skills aren't increasing, and your value in the marketplace decreases each day you stay there. And if history is a guide, your job there isn't as stable as you think, because average companies making average products for average people are under huge strain.

It's Good to Be King In fact, in a stable world, it's great to be king. Lots of perks. Not a lot of hassles. Kings have always worked to maintain stability because that's the best way to stay king.

Marketing, the verb, changed the market. The market is now a lot less impressed with average stuff for average people, and the market is a lot less impressed with loud and flashy and expensive advertising. Today, the market wants change. "Established 1906" used to be important. Now, apparently, it's a liability. The rush from stability is a huge opportunity for you.

While one nonprofit runs from grant maker to grant maker seeking funds for this project or that one, a successful nonprofit sticks with a consistent theme, showing up, paying its dues, focusing on just a few foundations until the money comes through.

Chandin found that a straight-back upholstered chair had come to be marked as his. Although it was only a physical place, the chair became an antidote to the chaos of his uprootedness.

I didn't have to go. I could fade into the crowd, be pushed along through the tunnel, into the city. I could roll along in my bubble ball. I was used to moving, used to packing up and following along like a robot, but I was tired of it. I wanted to stop moving and I wanted to be somewhere and stay somewhere and I wanted my family.

We know that people who consistently meditate have a singular ability to cultivate positive emotions, retain emotional stability, and engage in mindful behavior

Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it's also more grounded & sustainable.

A computer needs words to stay the same over long periods of time. A computer can't deal with a word that means one thing one year, another the next, or that slides from innocence into stupidity as silly did.

The result is that citizenship, or what remains of it, is practiced amidst a continuing state of worry. Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement.

Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement.

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

Hey, don't knock it. It still runs. Most of the time, even after I turn it off." Jo

safety and kept them sane in the midst of utter chaos.

It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.