Stasis – Quotes

Disaster beats stasis. Better

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock. Evan Harris

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin’s postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for … Read more

Hideous psychic fallout they’d

Hideous psychic fallout they’d all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety – the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy – the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis … Read more

And there is a

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. Dave Eggers

Maybe it’ll be like

Maybe it’ll be like ‘The Simpsons,’ and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that’s what ‘Glee”s about. Maybe this is kind of a stasis show. I don’t know. Cory Monteith

I can never quite

I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred. Christopher Hitchens

Size will hurt returns.

Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway – the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn’t look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time … Read more

One patient had severe

One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting from skeletal meta-stases…at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief. Charles Moertel

There are sacred moments

There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on … Read more

It’s stasis that kills

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. Bono