Quotes About Paradigm

Most white people enter therapy in order to gain better control of their lives, or as one healer put it, "to stickhandle through life." Indigenous healing is instead about connecting with the spirit world in a meaningful way and achieving harmony. Whereas traditional psychotherapy is based on a man-against-nature paradigm, Indigenous healing focuses on man harmonizing with nature.

I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore.

Relatedly, an increasingly horizontal structure of learning puts pressure on how learning institutions-schools,

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

We do wish for easy answers, for silver bullets, for proven programs, for implementable solutions. When paradigms shift, when deep change is needed, our very assumptions, values and behaviors are questioned. The real challenge is to re-invent the very world we live in.

The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.

As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute and the Weimar Constitution, respectively) to subsist, and according to a paradigm that has been acutely defined as "dual state" - they placed beside the legal constitution a second structure, often not legally formalized, that could exist alongside the other because of the state of exception.

To think about taking our place in nature instead of conquering it is a deep change in the way we see ourselves and the world. It means changing from binary and linear thinking to a cyclical paradigm that is a new declaration of interdependence.

Though patriarchal cultures and religions have made hierarchy seem inevitable, human for 95 percent of history have been more likely to see the circle as our paradigm.

Unlike the traditional paradigm of warfare, in which the military object is the destruction of enemy battalions, divisions, and corps, in the paradigm of irregular warfare the security objective is the population itself.

The new theory, of course, always subsumes more effects than the old. But the remarkable thing is that when it is discovered, it also wholly changes our conception of how the world works.

What she referenced with such careless ease seemed a world-shattering notion to me.

Kepler was, as author Arthur Koestler called him, the "watershed" where the medieval world finally gave way to the modern.

Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another.

For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

Your belief is the operating system on which your life runs.

Often known science will revolt against unknown science

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Change the prevailing mode of consciousness and you change the world.

Successful low-hanging fruit results will be clear, compelling, and, potentially, paradigm shifting.

Netflix completely shook up the world.

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.