Quotes About Stability

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

IN ORDER TO REMAIN UNCHANGED, THE SYSTEM MUST CHANGE Specifically,

when everything changes, I need a bookmark - I need you...

Change, that all-encompassing word, has become a universal corporate mantra. We must change to survive. But change from what and to what? Change for change's sake is no solution to anything. Most people actually eschew change. It is emotionally disruptive, stress inducing and threatens that most fundamental of human needs - stability.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Resilience accommodates the unexpected.

The phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is often said to refer to a metallic grid with circular holes in it, set under a pyramid of cannonballs on a ship's deck to keep it stable. When this "brass monkey" got cold enough, the metal contracted and the cannonballs all popped out. In fact, the phrase means exactly what it says; the fake nautical euphemism is an attempt to make its rude humor more acceptable.

And thus came in the use of money, some lasting thing that men might keep without spoiling, and that by mutual consent men would take in exchange for the truly useful, but perishable supports of life.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

Once it is common, cooperation is evolutionarily stable. The problem is how it becomes common in the first place, because defection is also stable.

The fundamentals of America's economy are strong.

Where money and publicity meet, there's always excitement, but good behavior is rarely a part of the mix. Manners are the operating rules of more stable systems. I got caught up in the rising excitement of pro tennis—in some ways, I was the personification of that excitement—and yes, my behavior got away from me. That's a big subject.

The most demanding assumption that TPS makes about the production environment is that it is a stable environment. And it demands stability in three different aspects.

Semper eadem [Ever the same].

a tent represented adventures and possibilities, giving you the stars every single night. But a house stayed in one place, safe but always the same.

You generally need at least a modicrum of stability for people to have the time and resources to innovate and the will to make risky choices.

It's always comforting to see the return of normalcy, and that the system has not completely broken down.

I made a grab for the fabric of the universe and hauld myself into a stable orientation.

He's warm and solid, present as an oak tree as he sighs and leans against me.

You can just set things down. And they stay where you put them. I'll never get used to that.

Her hand on his arm was like a mooring rope, a promise of harbor.

In situations of crisis, it was always best to rely on routine.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.