Quotes About Disruption

It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their, primary disruption of natural rhythms, and that we owe them more rather than less for having stripped them of their birthright and earthrights has not entered into the environmentalist discussions that I've encountered to date.

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

No, no, no, no physics over breakfast!

The point is the three of you are dysfunctional, volatile, inefficient, and in my way.

Tornados touch down. They don't settle. They leave destruction in their wake.

a chain reaction of five-year-olds vomiting

Nikky goes on about whatever it is Nikky goes on about for another thirty seconds or so, then sweeps into the back to assuredly wreak more havoc, leaving a zillion startled molecules in her wake.

In the half-century 1879–1929, Western societies developed into close-knit units, in which powerful disruptive strains were latent. The more immediate source of this development was the impaired self-regulation of market economy. Since society was made to conform to the needs of the market mechanism, imperfections in the functioning of that mechanism created cumulative strains in the body social. Impaired self-regulation was an effect of protectionism.

As the ingenious twentieth-century inventor Buckminster Fuller once said, 'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority. The girls (kids they remembered no bigger than that) suddenly flowered and married. The lads returned from their military service with blasé airs and a new vocabulary. A horde of new brats was born, making their disprespectful uproar in Clochemerle.

If I've been convinced by one idea in the course of collecting all the life stories that inform the book, it is this: Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable but desirable. They mean growth.

We live in a world of accelerating change, where the future is less and less an extrapolation of the past. Change is unrelenting, pitiless, and occasionally shocking.

Only 11 percent of the companies that made up the Fortune 500 in 1955 are on the list today The average age of a company on the S&P 500 Index has fallen from sixty years in the 1950s to less than twenty years currently

the world is becoming more turbulent faster than most companies are becoming more adaptable.

Mad Men disrupts the seamlessness of ubiquity,

Someone asked them to be quiet, so it's just a matter of a time before all hell breaks loose.

They couldn't reach the cord to make it stop & so it flew about scaring the older ladies just out of church. It left behind a trail of wet feathers & a renewed sense of the presence of evil among the faithful. Once they found out who started it, everyone settled down & went back to hating the usual stuff.

And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.

One year, he went to Paris for the week-end: but that completely upset his equilibrium.

We often use our belief in another person's "resilience" as an emotional shield. We protect ourselves from the discomfort, confusion, and helplessness we feel in the face of their trauma. It's a kind of looking away; it lets our worldview go unchallenged and lets our life continue with minimal disruption.

Today's technology is heavily contaminating the environment with many behavior-disturbing, endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that include dioxin, phthalates, agricultural pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), industrial solvents, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals. Exposure to these EDCs that have estrogenic, antiestrogenic, and antiandrogenic properties has been shown to perturb the same stress pathways that provoke a disease response. (Vaiserman 2014)