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“The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.”

Way Important War School Stars Imagination Vision Four Journey Taught Nightmare Episodes Jumping Continuity Chronology

Author:Simon Schama

“I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.”

Ifs Sides Records Listening Grew Grew Up Stores Continuity Vinyl Record Stores

Author:Amos Lee

“Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.”

Firsts Shows Wanted President Figures Connections Historical Symbols Socialist Continuity

Author:Francois Hollande

“Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.”

“We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.”

“You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected”

Natural Fashion Humorous Contrary Continuity Of Context

Book:The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm

Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm

“I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.”

Character Backgrounds Logical Continuity

Author:Dexter Fletcher

“When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.”

Ifs Difficult Five Four Player Feet Stage Cold Development Continuity Blanket

Author:John Toshack

“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.”

“Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.”

Leader Agents Continuity Protector

Author:Samuel Wilson

“The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.”

States Continuity Modernity Liquid

Author:Samuel Wilson

“I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.”

Thinking Trying Years Break Continuity Always Trying

Author:Cliff Martinez

“You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.”

Thinking Knows Years Firsts Stills Important Jobs Film Young Rich Involved Hundred Historian Filmmaking Continuity

Book:Dennis Hopper: Interviews

Source: Dennis Hopper: Interviews

“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Firsts Two Reason Class Teaching Security Changed Towns University Inevitable Reason Why Agency 80s Continuity Harvard Grim Two Days Harvard University

Author:Hal Hartley

“A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.”

Ifs Needs Humans Past Felt Goal Human Life Historian Continuity

Author:Ralph Davis

“The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.”

Offers Tradition Function Constitution British Symbols Radical Royal Comforting Continuity Royal Family Us Constitution Radical Change

Author:Joseph Sobran

“I think what people watch television for is the emotional continuity, from episode to episode, and feeling that the experience that they had, four episodes ago, has actually been building to an episode that comes later, and knowing that the characters are growing, as a result of that, and making mistakes, is really, really important to the way people connect to television.”

People Thinking Way Important Character Feelings Results Mistake Watches Knowing Four Growing Television Building Emotional Making Mistakes Episodes Continuity

Author:Alex Kurtzman

“All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.”

Process Term Investment Investors Continuity Relentless

Author:Seth Klarman

“Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.”

Doe Home Memories Powerful Comfort Offers Connections Complicated Daily Life Belonging Continuity Constraints Pastime Great Gifts American Family

Author:Ken Burns

“Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.”

America Memories Space Baseball Continuity

Author:Donald Hall

“How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.”

“The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.”

Humans Universe Space Wonderful Produce Waste Infinite Mediums Remove Regions Flaws Portions Smallest Continuity Human Power Interstellar

Book:Escritos científicos

Source: Escritos científicos

“Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.”

Ends Existence Birth Starting Limitation Continuity Starting Point

Author:Zhuangzi

“This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.”

Moving Risk Moving Forward Our Future Sustainability Versus Continuity Gamble Disruption Mandates Stagnation

Author:Najib Razak

“The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.”

Way Want Giving Long Character Stories Chance Television Be Good Episodes Continuity Stand Alone Long Story

Author:Billy Campbell

“Absolutely, you rise and fall based on your creative team. I have continuity across different films that I've done. I was even fortunate enough to reach back and include people that had worked on Horton with me, as well.”

People Wells Different Done Enough Film Fall Creative Team Fortunate Continuity Rise And Fall Creative Team

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“So, we're well aware of the questions that our audience is inevitably going to ask. We're well aware of how carefully they watch the show and hold us to continuity. We're certainly aware of the debates that are going to occur.”

Wells Shows Asks Watches Audience Debate Continuity

Author:Jeff Pinkner

“Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories, in order to spark debate. We're very determined to always give the answer. We don't want to leave a lot of things open to debate, at the end of the day.”

Want Giving Writing Ends Stories Order Answers Audience Emotional Standards Determined Debate Authenticity The End Of The Day Sparks Toys Continuity High Standards

Author:Jeff Pinkner

“Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.”

Company Tension Productive Continuity Great Company

Author:James C. Collins

“The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.”

May Home Seems Lasts Building Simplicity Coming Home Continuity Plasticity

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.”

Trying Play Helping Bigs Behinds Band Beats Clean Jazz Notes Steady Big Things Flexible Continuity Bops

Author:Charlie Parker

“When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.”

Ifs Way Trying Hard Remember Used Found Forget Fields Materials Edges Working It Continuity Hunches

Author:Dorothea Lange

“When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.”

Knowledge Continuity Soothing

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.”

Thinking Continuity

Author:James Bobin

“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.”

“It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.”

Hard Originals Continuity

Author:Andres Segovia

“I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.”

Years Firsts Kids Wanted Games Stuff Born Levels Draws Albums Bridges Continuity New Stuff Timelines Old Stuff

Author:DJ Quik

“We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.”

World Giving Together Ability Pieces Happened Happenings Logical Remembrance Continuity

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!”

Ifs Should Ideas Whole Names Stars Space Notion Rounds Doctrine Mathematical One Word Continuity Firmament Corpus

Book:1854-1973

Source: 1854-1973

“He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.”

Clear Holy Moon Calm Continuity

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.”

Real Lying Growth Accepting Security Patterns Nostalgia Partners Dancer Touching Dread Anticipation Looking Back Continuity Live In The Present

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.”

Way Humans Kind Stories Social Born Storytelling About Yourself Continuity Telling Stories

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.”

Kind Cities Drink Towns Down And Hanging Out Continuity

Author:Ralph Reese

“My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and all the logistical purposes. It also helps with performance and the journey of each character, but I also think it's good for the director and everyone [else] involved.”

Ifs Thinking Character Helping Purpose Order Journey Involved Directors Performances My Favorite Continuity Favorites Things

Author:Zoe Bell

“Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.”

Way Giving Memories Conditions Continuity Predictable

Author:Deepak Chopra

“One of our priorities when doing "March" is to sort of undo what we feel is the disservice done by what we call the Nine Words Problem. Which is that most American kids, whatever they do learn about the movement, especially in school, is usually limited to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream." And so there's sort of a layer of unreality; there's not a sense of continuity.”

Feels Done Problem Dream Kids School Movement Kings Priorities Nine Parks March Layers Luther Continuity Disservice Unreality Rosa

Author:Nate Powell

“Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.”

Needs Mean Environment Organisms Continuity Life Means Living Organisms Continuity Of Life

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.”

Individual Environment Active Tendencies Mediums Surroundings Continuity

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.”

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