Showing posts with label change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Philosophy, Government, Change, Interactions Quotes

PHILOSOPHY
Josiah Royce
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

GOVERNMENT
Alfred North Whitehead
Governments are best classified by considering who are the “somebodies” they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

CHANGE
David Viscott
No one can make you change. No one can stop you from changing. No one really knows how you must change. Not even you. Not until you start.

INTERACTIONS
Oscar Wilde
I like looking at geniuses, and listening to beautiful people.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Time, Education, Change, Men Quotes

TIME
Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.

EDUCATION
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

CHANGE
Henry Valentine Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

MEN
Stephanie H. Piro
I like the concept of “men”. It’s the reality I have trouble with.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Cognition, Media, Degradation, Interactions

COGNITION
Marvin Lee Minsky
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.

MEDIA
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Movies in America have not developed advertising intervals simply because the movie itself is the greatest of all forms of advertisement for consumer goods.

DEGRADATION
Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

INTERACTIONS
Henry A. Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Zen, Education, Change, Conversation

ZEN
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

EDUCATION
Peter McWilliams
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

CHANGE
William Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

CONVERSATION
Ben Jonson
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.