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Continuity in everything is unpleasant. -- Blaise Pascal
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. -- Michael Porter
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations. -- Dean Rusk
Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. -- Tracy Kidder
One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace. -- Goodluck Jonathan
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. -- George Orwell
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. -- Germaine Greer
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart. -- Garrett Hardin
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. -- James Stephens
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. -- Blaise Pascal
Continuity is boring. -- Peter Greenaway
Continuity is how you build a physique, -- Frank Zane
Children need continuity as they grow and learn. -- Thomas Menino
Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst. -- Marv Wolfman
Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky. -- Max de Pree
It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction. -- Dave Edmunds
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. -- Bertrand Russell
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. -- John Dewey
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another. -- David O. Selznick
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
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
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. -- Jurgen Habermas
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside. -- Brian Ferneyhough
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. -- Li Ka-shing
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. -- Wernher von Braun
Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks. -- Ralph Reese
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. -- Kenneth Burke
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel. -- Morris West
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. -- Michael King
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. -- Robert Nozick
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. -- Stanley Crouch
I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am. -- Cesc Fabregas
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this! -- James Joseph Sylvester
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
The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. -- Rem Koolhaas
It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London. -- Felicity Jones
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. -- Michael Porter
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. -- Yehudi Menuhin
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
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
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition. -- Octavio Paz
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity. -- F. Sionil Jose
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration. -- Max Weber
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. -- Li Ka-shing
My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security. -- Francesca Annis
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society. -- Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. -- Pat Conroy
I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity. -- Richard Armitage
This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future. -- Najib Razak
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. -- David Bowie
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
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. -- Noam Chomsky
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. -- Marcel Proust
Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity. -- Robert Redford
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Travel itself is part of some longer continuity. -- Eudora Welty
The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity. -- Samuel Wilson
Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer. -- Melville Fuller
It helps to know there is going to be continuity. -- Tony Bennett
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. -- James C. Collins
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan. -- Barton Gellman
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships -- Lyonel Feininger
The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune. -- Lord Chesterfield
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. -- Sharon Salzberg
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. -- Albert Camus
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season. -- Ernie Harwell
Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured. -- Georgia Harkness
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity. -- Michael Porter
I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too. -- Dabo Swinney
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. -- Edward de Bono
What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes. -- Amy Alcott
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. -- David Brin
All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process. -- Seth Klarman
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. -- Robert Vaughn
I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history. -- John Lone
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life. -- John Dewey
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. -- Tillie Olsen
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. -- Herbert Read
Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity. -- Samuel Wilson
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. -- Oliver Sacks
He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy. -- Gautama Buddha
I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot. -- Dave Filoni
Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind. -- Elvis Costello
The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends. -- Wendy Wasserstein
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous. -- Larry Gelbart
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. -- Bertrand Russell
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. -- Nick Bantock
It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity. -- Andres Segovia
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. -- John Berger
In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst. -- Marv Wolfman
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. -- Rene Dubos
Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push. -- Mary Hunter Austin
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing. -- Sandra Bernhard
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. -- Mark Van Doren
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. -- Italo Calvino
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. -- Julio Cortazar
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. -- E. B. White
Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that. -- James Bobin
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. -- Jose Saramago
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity. -- Dexter Fletcher
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. -- Octavio Paz
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now. -- Anne Waldman
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. -- Lynn Nottage
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. -- Donald Hall
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away. -- Nadine Gordimer
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? -- Antonio Damasio
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. -- Frederick Lenz
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly. -- Erik Erikson
Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. -- Meir Soloveichik
If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels. -- Fulton J. Sheen

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