#stable

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. ↗

— John Barton

#exciting #experienced #inquiry #interactive #makes

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#further #impact #internal #matter #object

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#back #basis #community #different #economically

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#mistakes #only #stable #system #telling

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#been #both #disrespect #greater #i

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence. ↗

— Joan Didion

#audience #confidence #gain #getting #gradually

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#arms #arms race #attention #concern #controls

There is nothing so stable as change. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#nothing #stable

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. ↗

— Franz Boas

#emotionally #energetic #imaginative #intelligent #mankind

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

#fertile #function #generally #harmonious #help