System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

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
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell
What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already? — Unknown Author
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is… — Nelson Mandela
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system. — Adrian Rogers

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