Top 100 Quotes About Continuity
#1. A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
Rene Dubos
#2. In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems.
Girdhar Joshi
#3. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
Harold Bloom
#4. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#5. Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
Dalai Lama
#6. I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.
Nick Bantock
#7. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.
David Daiches
#8. I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.
Jonathan Galassi
#9. So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.
Michael Porter
#10. All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home.
Harold Bloom
#11. To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
Hal Borland
#12. I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.
Grant Morrison
#13. You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
Larry Gelbart
#14. The sign of the new Covenant is humility, hiddenness - the sign of the mustard-seed. The Son of God comes in lowliness. Both these elements belong together: the profound continuity in the history of God's action and the radical newness of the hidden mustard-seed.
Pope Benedict XVI
#15. Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.
For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of
set standards ... !
Sujit Lalwani
#16. There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.
Susan Hill
#17. There's no continuity in videos ... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
Tamra Davis
#18. And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.
Max Born
#19. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
Meir Soloveichik
#20. The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.
Joseph Sobran
#21. This is the thing I have discovered: Michael's being gone doesn't mean we stop trying to save him. The strain is less but it doesn't vanish. It becomes part of our bewilderment, a kind of activity without motive, which provides its own strange continuity.
Adam Haslett
#22. It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.
Larry McMurtry
#23. Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
Werner Von Braun
#24. Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
Dean Rusk
#25. The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
"Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957
Frank Lloyd Wright
#26. In these dreams, I'm there, implicated in some ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity.
Haruki Murakami
#27. Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.
Paul P. Enns
#28. Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?
Stephen Jay Gould
#29. Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.
Robert Redford
#30. History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.
Steven Erikson
#31. Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
Julio Cortazar
#32. We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.
Robert Mugabe
#33. When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
Anne Waldman
#34. (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.
Eric Metaxas
#35. History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
Elizabeth Bowen
#36. One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
Goodluck Jonathan
#37. It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
Alveda King
#38. Biblical Theology ... is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity ... Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.
Geerhardus Vos
#39. A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life ... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.
Ralph Davis
#40. In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.
Marv Wolfman
#41. Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
Timothy Noah
#42. Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.
Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
#43. If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.
Daniel Clowes
#44. There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.
Frederick Lenz
#45. You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.
Dennis Hopper
#46. There is a continuity in our lives - a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true that in the face of pain and death, we are very small. But in the face of life and memory and love, even death is very small.
Yael Shahar
#47. The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.
Simon Schama
#48. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#49. Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
Aleksandar Hemon
#51. Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.
Chris Matthews
#53. Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.
Ken Burns
#54. Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.
Neil Gaiman
#55. By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix precisely, from the logical structure of geometry.
Hermann Weyl
#56. I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot.
Dave Filoni
#57. The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee. There is weather. There is your human face in the mirror. The world, you discover, is a place of appalling continuity.
Glen Duncan
#58. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Tillie Olsen
#59. Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.
Giordano Bruno
#60. What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.
Dan Shaughnessy
#61. To insure the continuity of philanthropy, we must instill in kids the values and attitudes that will enable them to see charity as a vital part of their lives.
Mary Leonard
#62. Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#63. Design that mimics the sensual continuity of nature's subtle connections of color, light and texture invite the viewer's receptivity.
Maggie Macnab
#64. There is much evidence indicating that the Capitalistic and Communist conspiracies BOTH are directed by a single master conspiracy which may have continuity with the Order of the Illuminati which was founded 200 years ago ...
G. Edward Griffin
#65. Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.
Edsger Dijkstra
#66. We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
Oliver Sacks
#67. The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
Raymond E. Feist
#68. Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.
Frederick Lenz
#69. Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
Bertrand Russell
#70. Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.
Ahmed Zewail
#71. I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.
Geraldine Brooks
#72. Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell
#73. Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
Robert Vaughn
#74. As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately
Barbara W. Tuchman
#75. The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity ... The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity ... a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.
Milan Kundera
#76. Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
Eudora Welty
#77. Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.
H.W. Brands
#78. The three basic material rights
continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
David Brin
#79. The pages aren't numbered, so I don't know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it's in sequence but these days I'm not really looking for continuity. All I'm after is something that makes sense to me.
Melina Marchetta
#81. Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.
Francois Hollande
#82. Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.
Paulo Coelho
#83. In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#84. We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
Ernest Mandel
#85. What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#86. Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.
Bryce Courtenay
#87. I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven,
Anselm Kiefer
#88. Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.
Avicenna
#89. Something old represents continuity. Something new offers optimism for the future. Something borrowed symbolizes borrowed happiness. And something blue stands for purity, love, and fidelity.
M. Clarke
#90. Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to year. It is safe in this house.
Rosamond Lehmann
#91. The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.
David Riesman
#92. I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.
Earle Brown
#94. That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches.
Pete Lembo
#95. Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.
Marv Wolfman
#96. The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
Michael Porter
#97. Indeed, if there is any one "secret" to an enduring great company, it is the ability to manage continuity and change - a discipline that must be consciously practiced, even by the most visionary of companies.
James C. Collins
#98. With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their sequence one upon another constitute in their continuity what may be termed the 'behaviour'.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#99. A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it's variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!
Donny Osmond
#100. Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
Rajneesh
