Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.
The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.
People who say the system works work for the system.
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.
The linear design of FFXIII had a great advantage in providing players with enough time to become familiarized with the new battle system and the unique world. But on the other hand, it led to players feeling like the majority of the game was a tutorial.
There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
The world system is coming to the structural crisis
You know, Bernie [Sanders] is - he is a team player. I think he's on the wrong team, perhaps because he's been in Washington, D. C. , too long, because he used to really understand independent politics and why we cannot have a viable political system unless we have independent political parties. Otherwise we just keep marching to the right.
If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.
In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.