Quotes About Flux

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I've read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I'll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.

Sometimes, things change so quickly you don't even know how it happened.

Things come and go in the news cycle like waves of fever.

I've found that instability from growth comes in waves.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

If you look back at our history, we always tend to see drivers in waves move in one direction so it's not uncommon to have three, four or five of your top drivers exit for different reasons in a short period of time, two years, whatever it is.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

Life is like this: things come and go.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

In animation, action is changing so quickly that there's really not a lot of suspended moments.

I listen to a lot of stuff. I mean, I'm constantly switching up what I'm listening to.

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

People think about life in terms of changes, not levels.

As clouds race towards their own release from form, they are replenshied by the mutable process which created them. They drift, not into continuity, but into other, temporary states of being, all of which eventually decompose to melt into the surrounding air. They rise and fall like vaporous civilizations....

Life was all just coming and going, wasn't it? And then eventually it was just going.

The home in which you reside it not forever.