System Quotes

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One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. — Bill Lear
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.… — Gordon W. Allport
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even… — Robert M. Pirsig
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek… — Carl Jung
The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails… — Carl Jung
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape… — Paul Popenoe
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes… — Andre Breton
Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer of money, we… — Stuart Wilde
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the… — Kenny Smith
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and… — Frederick Law Olmsted
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. — Woodrow Wilson
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I… — Bill Gates
I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study to be an… — Tom Szaky
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business. — Alan Greenspan
Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front… — Kevin Rose
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still… — Thomas Jefferson
Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a… — Jean Liedloff
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space… — Bernie Krause

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