System Quotes
5175 quotes by 3168 authors
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Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive…
— Noel Gallagher
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Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,…
— Douglas Engelbart
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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into…
— Arthur Koestler
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Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System.…
— Theresa May
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The problem is that you go to the PUBLIC FOOL SYSTEM and they're NOT about training you on CONTRACTS on the PRIVATE SIDE, they're about…
— Jack Smith
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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are…
— Ken Robinson
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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
— Ken Robinson
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a…
— John Herschel
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
— Patricia Hewitt
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You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
— Alan Watts
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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of…
— Tara Brach
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Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure…
— Chris Hedges
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I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at…
— Gunther Rall
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot;…
— Adolf Galland
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other…
— Alan Greenspan
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As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the…
— George Soros
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In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is…
— George Soros
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In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional…
— Timothy Geithner
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Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
— Talcott Parsons
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