Top 1200 Electoral Systems Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Growing and aging populations are putting increased pressure on health-care systems that are already buckling under the burden of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.

We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United, a decision that has undermined the election system in our country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money to come into our electoral system.

Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.

One thing that's consistent in all of my work is that these aren't accidents; they're all conscious landscapes. They're all things that we're doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism.

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world.

Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.

There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.

The continued erosion of the one country, two systems framework puts at risk Hong Kong's long-established special status in international affairs.

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

We need to ask ourselves what kind of systems and structures we want in place - not only for people to survive, but also to thrive and reach their full potential.

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

I want to work with the Philippine people and make life better there; there are systems I can work with.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

Support systems and support groups are so important because that's what makes you stronger.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

Systems, coaches, and directors or club presidents do not win games - players do, they are the only people who can make a significant difference once that game starts.

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.

It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.

From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.

I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.

I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.