Top 1200 Systems Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.

The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

I tend to write about love because I'm always thinking about it. I think a lot though and struggle with overanalyzing. Way over. That's the thing, I feel like I do that a lot and then finally when I stop thinking, that's when it happens.

As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.

I didn't set out to win Olympic medals, to play at UConn, to play in the WNBA. I just loved to play basketball. It's really very simple. Then when you start thinking about those other things, that's when thinking gets complicated.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

If bitcoin is more expensive or slower than traditional financial systems, people aren't going to use it.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Truth be told, relying on 'one country, two systems' to preserve our values is a lost cause.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

Countless banks around the world are already testing distributed ledger systems in proof-of-concept trials.

Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn't thinking about the future from God's standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.

I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.

The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.