Quotes About Paradigm

The truly haunting Other is not what lies outside the text but what lies outside the picturesque garden of the Western world.

Once we remove the cultural framework around the words religion and magic, no objective differences remain.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Changing your perception of the world is often as good as changing the world.

What has to change in this world are attitudes.

Reality and our interaction with it is a progression of ideas and beliefs.

The way we work seems fixed and unchangeable - until it changes, and then we realise it didn't have to be like that in the first place.

It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.

The Freudian paradigm is so intertwined with liberalism and humanism and America that to doubt the former is to implicitly denigrate the latter.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Theories in the natural sciences which have been replaced by others which do the same job better are of no interest to the current practice of science. This cannot be the case where those theories have helped to constitute what they interpret or explicate. The

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

success springs not from some new-fangled fad, paradigm, process, or program but from the willingness of an organization's people to embrace full accountability for the results they seek.

Self-study represents a profound paradigm shift. It is the moment in our journey when we let go of results and wholeheartedly embrace the process. Once we shift our focus from the results to the process itself, all situations become opportunities. We are present and can welcome all things.

Whether we are 'Freudians' or not, as I am not, we are surely all post-Freudian. He set the tone for vast changes in our culture

Every revolution is a revolution of ideas-yet to innovate is not reform.