Quotes About Integration

I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

In the end the natives would be so mixed and mingled with the new settlers that the term Saxon or Angle ceased to have any meaning. All would become English.

plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

True, the number of functional managers should always be kept at a minimum, and there should be the largest possible number of 'general' managers who manage an integrated business and are directly responsible for its performance and results. Even with the utmost application of this principle the great bulk of managers will remain in functional jobs, however. This is particularly true of the younger people. A

To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company's assumptions, and they must challenge a company's current outlook. One

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Planning and doing are separate parts of the same job; they are not separate jobs. There is no work that can be performed effectively unless it contains elements of both. One

The Functions of the Executive, that organizations are held together by information rather than by ownership or command.

Doing philosophy is largely a matter of trying to put things together, trying to get the pieces of very large puzzles to make some sense

the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it.

the future lay in cultivating the scientist in all of us. If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves, and the world.

They always say 'Oh yes, you have a Kan-Ban system, we do also. You have quality circles, we do also. Your people fill out standard work descriptions, ours do also.' They all see the parts and have copied the parts. What they do not see is the way all the parts work together.

Ultimately, the payoff from integrating systems thinking and mental models will be not only improving our mental models (what we think) but altering our ways of thinking: shifting from mental models dominated by events to mental models that recognize longer-term patterns of change and the underlying structures producing those patterns.

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

That our own standing as part of an integrated universe not only allows us but, by singular divine fiat, compels--induces--us to connect, to merge, to unify--

For once in California there was an integration of art with avant-garde literature and music.

System thinking is a discipline of seeing whole.

what I like to call the spiritual nature of the game. I can't pretend to be an expert in leadership theory. But what I do know is that the art of transforming a group of young, ambitious individuals into an integrated championship team is not a mechanistic process. It's a mysterious juggling act that requires not only a thorough knowledge of the time-honored laws of the game but also an open heart, a clear mind, and a deep curiosity about the ways of the human spirit.

Simply that when immigrants come to a new land, they often turn to religion for a sense of ethnic solidarity and community. Sociologists have long recognized this phenomenon: immigration is consistently correlated with increased religiosity.

Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.