Quotes About Integration

If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back.

Better not to be oneself, better to live tucked into others, embedded in a safe framework of social and cultural obligations and duties.

He was completely integrated now and he took a good long look at everything. Then he looked up at the sky. There were big white clouds in it. He touched the palm of his hand against the pine needles where he lay and he touched the bark of the pine trunk that he lay behind.

What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.

As Steven Strogatz says in his book, Sync, "For reasons we don't yet understand, the tendency to synchronize is one of the most pervasive drives in the universe, extending from atoms to animals, from people to planets.

Love and desire do not have to be mutually exclusive. Many couples find a way to integrate their contradictions without resorting to compartmentalization. But it starts with the understanding that we can never eliminate the dilemma. Reconciling the erotic and the domestic is not a problem to solve; it is a paradox to manage.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together, he said. I like to see a thing finished.

The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating... that collectedness and presence of mind...the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.

Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what's best for the project.

Eventually we become part of our surroundings, and they become part of us.

Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

Here I would like to propose Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

Hardware had to be researched, purchased, secured, integrated, tracked, and disposed of. Software had to be licensed, configured, patched, updated, and eventually replaced. Networks had to be built, secured, upgraded, and inevitably rebuilt. And every component interacted with every other component in curious and unexpected ways, with unexpected occasionally culminating in catastrophic. The

Programmers need to learn about the business problem that needs to be solved.

The process of unification could be equated to a tree, with each theory being a leaf on the end of a twig.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

After assembly

With this approach, every message should have one central idea, application, insight, or principle that serves as the glue to hold the other parts together.

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theoretical reasoning is often irreducibly complex. A given argument has several well-matched, interacting reasons, and the removal of any one of them makes the argument break down.

My interest in spiritual approaches to medical problems should not, however, be construed as a dismissal of science; rather it is a call for more integrated relations between science and humanities in order to transform medical cultures.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.