Systems Quotes

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Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted… — Richard Grasso
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support… — Lester R. Brown
The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems. — Peter Senge
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production… — Barry Commoner
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all… — Paul Hawken
We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems,… — Fred Thompson
Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. — Alan Watts
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure… — John Mica
We have power... Our power isnâ€™t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these… — John Trudell
Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important… — Noam Chomsky
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious… — Bill Mollison
Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's… — Michael Jackson
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. — Jonah Goldberg
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of… — George Washington
I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I condemnation and judgment… — Prem Prakash
You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see… — Rainbow Rowell
Established systems are inherently hostile to change. — Newt Gingrich
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs. — Don DeLillo
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by… — Alex Pentland
Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you… — Clive Barker

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