Continuity Quotes

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun setsThe moon setsBut they are not gone.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

You're searching...For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.There are only middles.

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.