Quotes About Flux

Tu È™i eu, È™i ea trecem È™i pierim; nimic nu d?inuie; totul se schimb?; în afar? de cuvinte È™i pictur?.

This sad vicissitude of things.

Endless improvements turn out to be merely endless transformations, thus announcing the uncomfortable truth that identity is permanently insubstantial and mutable.

But fashions are like human beings. They come in, nobody knows when, why, or how; and they go out, nobody knows when, why, or how. Everything is like life, in my opinion, if you look at it in that point of view.

It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damned; that salvation only precedes perdition. The inference is that some day our accursed tatterdemalions will be sleek angels. Then the sub-inference is that some later day, back they'll go whence they came.

summer leads into autumn autumn leafs into winter winter leans into spring spring leaps into summer

the more energy a probability requires, the more unstable it really is.

When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.

People can cope with the chaos of change over the years (that is, with 'diachronic variation'), simply because they can cope with the even greater chaos of synchronic variation, the diversity at any one point in time.

change is not the exception but the rule.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal chance at either.

And when you study the NBA, you realize and know that the NBA is never staying the same. It's always evolving, it's always changing.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

The game never stays the game - it's always evolving.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

nada permanece más que el cambio.