Quotes About Cyclical

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

Farming is repetitive in a rhythmic, cyclical way that is by turns comforting and frustrating; some people find it invigorating, while others flee to the city and never look back.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

wherever she goes she will only find the same hell she was running away from.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

There is a polarizing and dualistic experience occurring politically and economically in the world, and I believe we are near the peak of a cyclical and truly chaotic time.

Embarrassment causes blushing, and blushing causes embarrassment—so what makes the cycle stop?

Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Fashion and politics are almost the same industry, in many regards, because it's about identity, and it's cyclical, and people get really emotive about it.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

In nature's cyclical rhythms, there are no grounds for the discriminatory view that underlies Darwin's view of superiority and inferiority that deems single-celled organisms as lower, and more complicated life forms as higher. It would be more appropriate to say we are all one continuous life-form.

A period of tranquil growth thus leads to rising expectations, and a tendency to increase leverage: as Minsky put it in his most famous sentence, 'Stability – or tranquility – in a world with a cyclical past and capitalist financial institutions is destabilizing' (1978, p. 10).

Take a perfect circle, caress it and you'll have a vicious circle.

Life imitates art and back around.

This is mortality: to move along a rectilinear line in a universe where everything, if it moves at all, moves in a cyclical order. The task and potential greatness of mortals lie in their ability to produce things—works and deeds and words19—which would deserve to be and, at least to a degree, are at home in everlastingness, so that through them mortals could find their place in a cosmos where everything is immortal except themselves.

This is mortality: to move along a rectilinear line in a universe where everything, if it moves at all, moves in a cyclical order.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.

These thoughts have no meaning. They are idiot mantras that exist in a prearranged cycle; I'm no good, I'm the Angel of Death, I'm stupid, I can't do anything. Thinking the first thought triggers the whole circuit.

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.