Quotes About Continuity

In many matters of business, perhaps in most, a continuity of mediocrity is better than a hotch-potch of excellences.

It is a sentimental error ... to believe that the past is dead.

but life went on, even at times like this, and it was surprising how easy it was to keep going as though nothing had changed. i found it strange that i could walk down the street and appear normal, just like anyone else. that i could be in complete turmoil inside, and yet my reflection in a shop window could look the same as it ever had.

Our lives may be warped, but we live them all the same. One day to the next.

Things keep coming around and around in this world, it's all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin.

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we've even arrived back home.

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides, of course, made that principle the justification of his work.

As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately

Ich bin kein Fan von Dingen, die zu Ende gehen. Deshalb drehe ich mich wahrscheinlich immer im Kreis.

No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.

En la reminiscencia, en efecto, el alma tiene el pensamiento de esta sensación, pero no en la continuidad de su duración. Así, la idea de la sensación no es la duración misma de la sensación, es decir, ella no es propiamente su memoria. En cuanto a saber si las ideas mismas están sujetas a alguna corrupción, lo veremos en la Filosofía.

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film.

We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

Why don't you go on, Mother dear?' he asked. 'It's such nonsense!' said his mother. 'I believe it would go on for ever.' 'That's just what it did,' said Diamond.' 'What did?' she asked.' 'Why, the river. That's almost the very tune it used to sing.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken.