Quotes About Continuity

You can re-interpret the past. Tradition can always be updated. But it is wrong to say 'throw it out.'

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

BJP doesn't practice the culture of stopping schemes of previous governments.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

The history of Real Madrid is impressive, and Cristiano Ronaldo added a piece more to the history of this club, but Real Madrid can't stop. The player changes club, stops playing, retires and Real Madrid will still be here.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

It is of the essence of life that it does not begin here or end there, or connect a point of origin with a final destination, but rather that it keeps on going, finding a way through the myriad of things that form, persist and break up in its currents. Life, in short, is a movement of opening, not of closure.

There is no division, in practice, between work and life. [An intellectual craft] is a practice that involves the whole person, continually drawing on past experience as it is projected into the future.

Prepare for surprises in the second part, where everything changes so that much can remain the same.

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." —William Faulkner

Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself.

When we first draw breath outside the womb, we inhale tiny particles of all that came before, both literally and figuratively. We are never merely individuals; we are never alone; we are always in the company of others, of the past, of history.

if X and Y are two topological spaces and if f : X ? Y is a function between them, then we simply define f to be continuous if f-1 (U) is open for every open set U ? Y. Remarkably, we have found a useful definition of continuity that does not rely on a notion of distance.

When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.

For women, cloth also tended to represent the work of their hands, the female branches of family trees, and notions of the feminine ideal. Passing on a textile, then, symbolized women's ability, creativity, and continuance.

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.