Steady State Quotes

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after novelties. In other words, be guided by new desires, not by extant needs.

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

What it feels like when you're playing good? I don't know. It feels the same as every other day. Just more putts are going in the hole.

The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

For my own part I continue of the same Disposition.

I try never to get too high or too low. You have to keep that medium.

I try to keep an even keel.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

It's important as a team that you don't get too excited with a win and you don't get too disappointed with a loss. You have to stay very steady, very focused on that middle ground.

My energy level has not changed.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

Finding the golden mean between alerting and panic is a constant challenge.

The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

I kind of liked the idea of a universe that always was and always will be.