Quotes About Integration

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

There aren't two worlds, education and work; there is one world-life. Learning by hands-on participation .... should be at the heart of our educational perspective.

Spiritual direction, therefore, explicitly acknowledges what is often only implicit in other forms of pastoral care: that the directees' desire for more life, more integration, more union with God is grounded in the indwelling Spirit and that God is an active Other in the relationship. The working alliance is thus grounded in mystery and explicitly acknowledges that the way, too, is mystery.

People can deal with a lot of change if it is coherent and part of a larger whole. But adding unrelated and unexpected changes, even small ones, can push people to the breaking point.

Endings occur more easily if people can take a bit of the past with them. You are trying to disengage people from it, not stamp it out like an infection. And in particular, you don't want to make people feel blamed for having been part of it.

The first thing you're going to need in order to handle nonstop organizational change is an overall design within which the various and separate changes are integrated as component elements. In periods of major strategic change, such a design may have been announced to the organization by its leadership. When that happens, you're fortunate. Even if you don't entirely agree with the logic of the larger change, you benefit from the coherence it gives to the component changes.

Whether you do it this way or in some other way, you have to find a few larger patterns that integrate and make sense out of all of the specific changes.

For nothing can be sole or whole. That has not been rent.

Making or writing a movie, to me, is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

You southerners, he said. I've been here for fifteen years and I'll never understand you.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.