Equilibrium Quotes - Page 6

• Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Science, Expression, Evil

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• Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

  Robert Higgs

  Exercise, Done, Obsession

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• God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  God, Mistake, Persistence

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• I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.

  Walter Houser Brattain

  Science, Interesting, Example

  "Physics: 1942-1962". Book by Nobel Foundation, 1964.

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• The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Wise, Attitude, Believe

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• Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loss, Upset, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.

  Zach Woods

  Adversity, Math, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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• You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Thinking, Had Enough

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future; they help to shape it.

  George Soros

  Shapes, Different, Helping

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• The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.

  Shaun McNiff

  Art, Stress, Opportunity

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

  Richard Chandler

  Fall, Emotional, Trying

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• Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first
  lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the
  crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash
  equilibrium.

  Scott Aaronson

  Firsts, Humbling Experiences, Insight

  "Malthusianisms". www.scottaaronson.com. August 15, 2009.

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• Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some reason, it's taking a lot longer in music than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. It was almost acceptable by the 19th century for female writers to be published, yet it's only in the last couple of decades, since about 1980, that historical female composers have really emerged.

  Barbara Harbach

  Art, Couple, Historical

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Men, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Art, Real, War

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• Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

  Megan McArdle

  Moving, Social, Difficult

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• If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.

  Nicole Kidman

  Morning, Men, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You cannot form a community of countries of different strength without a certain amount of equilibrium. That is reflected in, for example, the EU budget and the bailout programs. That is why there are net payers and net recipients in Europe. A community cannot exist if the stronger do not take responsibility for the weaker.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Responsibility, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'd say that I'm also recommending [Equilibrium] for the cool gun battles.

  Richard Roeper

  Gun, Battle

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• I've learned that each time you go through a breakup, the pain isn't any more or less intense or hard, but the way you process and get back up can be different when you learn the tools to get yourself back to equilibrium. There are so many lessons that can be learned during times of heartbreak, and there's an opportunity to grow and become more emotionally healthy.

  Amy Chan

  Breakup, Pain, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility. There's distortion, and it's hurting our society. And as a result of that, there will be forces that, one way or another, are going to naturally bring that into equilibrium.

  Ray Dalio

  Hurt, Media, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.

  Unknown

  Crush, Nihilism, Spirit

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• Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Moving, Men, Long

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• Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Luxury, Tunes

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.405, Zondervan

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• Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

  Charles Gounod

  Perfect, Heaven, Grace

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