Quotes About Paradigm

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?"

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.

When we are grasped by the vision of a center of value and power more luminous, more inclusive and more true than that to which we are devoted, we initially experience the new as the enemy or the slayer - that which destroys our "god." Alfred North Whitehead wrote, "Religion is the transition from God the Void to God the Enemy, and from God the Enemy to God the Companion." Only with death of our previous image can a new and more adequate one arise.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Just because we've always done things a certain way doesn't mean it's the right way.

I was trying to find a paradigm for "rock and roll values." I asked Jerry Garcia for advice on how big an organization should get. He said I should stop hiring people once I started not remembering everyone's name.

the way to subvert the dominant paradigm is to have more fun than they do and make sure they know it.

Once you have a theory, it's not too hard to find evidence to substantiate it, at least until some other theory comes along.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

The paradigm for intelligence was logical reasoning, and the idea of what an internal representation would look like was it would be some kind of symbolic structure. That has completely changed with these big neural nets.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

To be trained for the kingdom is to be trained to see the world from the perspective of God's future—and therefore askew from what the world counts as common sense.

We have been trained to believe that change isn't easy and requires a lot of effort and a lot of time. I've always found this to be simply not true.