Top 100 Quotes About Cycles
#1. The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
Terence McKenna
#4. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?
Mary Doria Russell
#5. There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.
Nigel Lawson
#6. My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.
Robert C. Merton
#7. "We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"
Walter Russell
#8. If you want to break any negative cycles start with the man in the mirror
Thabiso Monkoe
#9. Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.
Terry Tempest Williams
#10. Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.
Simon Schama
#11. It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.
Annalee Newitz
#12. As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. So were born cycles of abuse.
Paul Cornell
#13. Life is conflict; peace is death. Forces of chaos keep the cycles of history moving.
Jack Donovan
#15. Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!
Barry Boehm
#16. Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
Luis Von Ahn
#18. Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.
Herb Brooks
#19. Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price - death of the individual.
Richard J. Borden
#20. You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.
Idries Shah
#21. We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?
Dana Rohrabacher
#22. We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy.
Robert Solow
#23. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. Brewer
#24. Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.
David Bellamy
#25. A bad process wastes your brain cycles. A good process leverages them to maximum advantage.
Anonymous
#26. Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.
H.G.Wells
#27. I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
Jane Pauley
#28. There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.
Steve Case
#29. Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.
One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.
One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.
Gemma B. Benton
#30. But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we're certain their life cycles have long since been extinguished. How long will it take for my own roots to loosen their grip?
Allison Winn Scotch
#31. The basic 110-volt AC power line moves the electrons at 60 cycles. If a transformer is close to the power source (and all speakers have transformers), the 60 cycles produce an audible hum. Crackling, caused by dirt on the sound head, can also be heard.
Sidney Lumet
#32. News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.
Mark McKinnon
#33. The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.
David Spangler
#34. War and tooth enameled
salted lemon childhoods
All colors run, none of us solid
Don't look for shadow behind me
I carry it within
I live cycles of light and darkness
Suheir Hammad
#35. The Broader interpretation that often seems to underlie the new economy label is that we are witnessing a more fundamental change in the paradigm. The old rules no longer apply. Throw out the NAIRU. Heck, throw out supply and demand. No limits, no business cycles.
Laurence Meyer
#36. History does not end; it runs in cycles. The failure to defend Ukraine today is the failure of the Allies to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938. The world must act now so that Poland in 2015 will not be called on to play the role of Poland in 1939.
Garry Kasparov
#37. Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women
(and to think of the girlfriend I was tempted to break up with because she slept too much)
i now know, they NURTURED here there: they slept in packs dreamt in cycles nursed her in shifts and became her ON ROTATION
Saul Williams
#38. Pay attention to what your body is telling you about your own wants and needs. Find the rhythms in your cycles. There is wisdom in our biology. Above all, do what feels best. Making healthy choices feels good. This is not deprivation. It is nourishment on all levels. It is the opposite of neglect.
Julie Holland
#39. Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.
Frederick Lenz
#40. We are full of rhythms ... our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
#41. Remember, child, life is not a straight line. It cycles.
James Rollins
#42. I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.
Alex Trebek
#43. Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
Bill Gates
#44. The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon Musk
#45. It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.
Jim Courier
#47. Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.
Newt Gingrich
#48. Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.
Donna Lynn Hope
#49. In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.
Lakshmi Mittal
#50. Characteristic of such affective equivalents is their brevity - manic-depressive cycles, as generally understood, occupy several weeks, and frequently longer. Monthly
Oliver Sacks
#51. In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.
Sally A. Kitt Chappell
#52. proudly. "One of the most dangerous assumptions we tend to repeatedly make is that of final achievement. There is never final achievement One Like Jade. There is completion within cycles, which only leads us to another set of cycles at a slightly higher level.
Denise Le Fay
#53. Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.
Lucy H. Pearce
#54. Nature is made of cycles, and we are made of nature. What is unnatural is believing in an infallible man and a nice place waiting in the sky." George
V.E Schwab
#55. Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.
Marni Jackson
#56. I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience ... Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.
Robert Fulghum
#57. From this expanded meta-view, they notice patterns and cycles that they could not see when they were in the thick of the situation. Their instinct and intuition kick in, and they often have flashes of insight that were not accessible when they were too close to the circumstances. The
Karen Kimsey-House
#58. If it weren't for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.
Raquel Cepeda
#59. At her first bleeding a woman meets her power.
During her bleeding years she practices it.
At menopause she becomes it.
Traditional Native American saying
Lucy H. Pearce
#60. Our thoughts are a field of energy cycles, a mind field, and just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those around us as well.
Wayne Dyer
#61. A subtle urge to synchronize is pervasive in nature. Indeed, it drives the firing of thousands of pacemaker cells in the heart and brings into synchrony the menstrual cycles of women who live together for long periods of time.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
#62. Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.
Louis C.K.
#63. Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
Eugene Kennedy
#64. Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.
Toba Beta
#65. The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
Azim Premji
#66. Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.
Cindy Crawford
#67. We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles.
Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna
#68. The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
Seth Klarman
#70. Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#71. We need to be both conscious and competent to design products that emulate nature's life cycles, making sure that they endure and are either recycled or absorbed.
Guilherme Leal
#72. Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
Alysia Reiner
#73. All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
Truman Capote
#74. Rhythm of life runs in cycles there are times in the darkness and time in the light.
Olympia Dukakis
#75. I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.
Rob Morrow
#76. Re-engrav'd time after time
Ever in their youthful prime
My designs unchang'd remain
Time may rage, but rage in vain
For above Time's troubled fountains
On the great Atlantic Mountains
In my Golden House on high
There they shine eternally
William Blake
#77. Writing is the act of creation. Put words on a page, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to seven-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him.
Chuck Wendig
#78. ... and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.
Lemony Snicket
#79. Arrau performed complete cycles of the Beethoven Sonatas, first in Mexico City in 1938 and later in Buenos Aires, London, and New York.
Victoria A Von Arx
#80. Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.
Ruthie Henshall
#81. Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.
Alex Berenson
#82. There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
Hans Hofmann
#83. Studies have shown that vibrations of 25 hertz applied to extremities promote wound healing, and increase bone density and muscle mass. They also help with pain relief. The cat's purr is 25 hertz (25 cycles per second).
Pam Johnson-Bennett
#84. Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems
Gyan Nagpal
#85. Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
Lady Gaga
#86. Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life
Paulo Coelho
#87. We all have different skill sets, interests, concentration cycles, and energy levels. The key is to find out how long it really takes YOU to do the things you need to do and move away from wishful thinking.
Julie Morgenstern
#88. One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.
Derek Donais
#89. Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
Daniel Yergin
#90. I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.
Robert Rodriguez
#91. My hand-stitched wings itch
to take flight
to test the winds of change
that inevitably blow
at the end
of a cycle.
B.G. Bowers
#92. I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.
David Brooks
#93. In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.
Paul Graham
#94. You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that ... They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea, get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated.
Keith Brantly
#95. An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#96. In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.
[Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
Tacitus
#97. The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#98. Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
Jay Samit
#99. Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.
Suzette Boon
#100. Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.
Harold Evans
