Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“She saw her sitting with her son in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think what people watch television for is the emotional continuity, from episode to episode, and feeling that the experience that they… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights.… — Vera John-Steiner Copy Share Image
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye… — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in… — Salvador Minuchin Copy Share Image
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The connection between measuring and continuity is this. Since there is no theoretical limit to the accuracy with which a quantity can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll… — Nathaniel Fick Copy Share Image
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means… — Pearl Abraham Copy Share Image
It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
