Quotes About Flux

Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.

The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.

Nothing which is, is static.

O futuro é fixo, meu caro senhor Kappus, nós é que estamos sempre em movimento no espaço infinito.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Permanence is but a word of degrees.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.

the transitory feeling of being constantly uprooted was always present.

Nothing ever stays the same, whether it be poems or humans.

Whatever is of the nature of arising, all that is of the nature of cessation.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Have you noticed how normally this line is moving?

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

One of the great paradoxes of social engineering is that it seems at odds with the experience of modernity generally. Trying to jell a social world, the most striking characteristic of which appears to be flux, seems rather like trying to manage a whirlwind.

The world is changing

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.