Self-Perpetuating Cycle Quotes

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Bitcoin's success will guarantee Bitcoin's success.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.