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  • The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns -- Bob Proctor
  • It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift. -- Brene Brown
  • It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift. -- Brene Brown
  • Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts. -- Howard Bloom
  • What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die. -- Deepak Chopra
  • We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. -- John W. Thompson
  • Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century. -- Michael Brune
  • Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population! -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. -- Stephen Covey
  • 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. -- Jane Fonda
  • Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity. -- Russell Brand
  • As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance. -- Stephen Covey
  • Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives. -- Stephen Covey
  • We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. -- Stephen Covey
  • 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. -- Richard Stallman
  • Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. -- Eve Ensler
  • Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week. -- Stephen Covey
  • To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell. -- Paul Johnson
  • The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application. -- Larry Ellison
  • The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. -- Bruce Perens
  • Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm. -- Joel A. Barker
  • Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. -- George Ayittey
  • The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. -- Deepak Chopra
  • If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm. -- Stephen Covey
  • Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order. -- John Shelby Spong
  • Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. -- Donella Meadows
  • Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment. -- Jim Bridenstine
  • A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. -- Stanislav Grof
  • Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life. -- Roseanne Barr
  • Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent. -- Janet Yellen
  • A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas. -- Pratibha Patil
  • We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved. -- Robert Lanza
  • We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems. -- Leroy Hood
  • There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity. -- Richard Rogers
  • I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime. -- J. Michael Straczynski
  • There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm. -- Jesse Williams
  • There's a paradox in every paradigm. -- Ani DiFranco
  • English people are so trapped in this class paradigm. -- Jackson Browne
  • Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling. -- Gary Busey
  • You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me. -- John Green
  • Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health. -- Stephen Mitchell
  • I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining -- Bjarne Stroustrup
  • To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • It is time to change the paradigm of the church and of every Christian. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  • The interchange of information is creating a new paradigm for the energy efficiency market -- Greg Turner
  • Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation -- John Felstiner
  • Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. -- Dave Snowden
  • If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool. -- Stephen Malkmus
  • When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions. -- Stephen Covey
  • The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again. -- Donald A. Norman
  • If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event. -- Roberto Esposito
  • Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction. -- Elizabeth Janeway
  • When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm. -- Satya Nadella
  • You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. -- Geoffrey West
  • We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority. -- Eve Ensler
  • I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. -- Paul A. Volcker
  • God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. -- Bono
  • Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion. -- Allie Burke
  • I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. -- Paul A. Volcker
  • The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions. -- Matthew Fox
  • The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm. -- Jean Houston
  • In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. -- Alberto Gonzales
  • Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm. -- Thorsten Heins
  • Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it. -- Subhash Kak
  • Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. -- Bernard Lown
  • We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm. -- Bill Drayton
  • The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play. -- Alex Bogusky
  • I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow. -- Meredith Brooks
  • There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters. -- Aleksandar Hemon
  • The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority. -- Carl Rogers
  • First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality. -- Agnivesh
  • The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging. -- John W. Thompson
  • Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm. -- Clayton Christensen
  • When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront. -- Leonard Shlain
  • What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience. -- Anita Roddick
  • By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective. -- Stephen Covey
  • I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on. -- J. August Richards
  • Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons. -- Gary L. Francione
  • The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. -- Stanislav Grof
  • There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself' -- Kim Williams
  • I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm. -- Benjamin Carson
  • There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. -- bell hooks
  • Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed. -- Richard Elmore
  • Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching. -- Dan Kimball
  • Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. -- Polly Toynbee
  • Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. -- Harry Mathews
  • As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices. -- Richard Driehaus
  • The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later. -- Charles R. Morris
  • The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions -- Fritjof Capra
  • The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm. -- Steve Jobs
  • I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt. -- Grace Cavalieri
  • I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece." -- Antonis Samaras
  • Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . . -- John Steele Gordon
  • So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm. -- John W. Thompson
  • We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all. -- Pauline Oliveros
  • With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly. -- Victor Koo
  • You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion. -- Bob Proctor
  • The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse. -- Jonathan Turley
  • Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets. -- David Willetts
  • Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master. -- Gloria Steinem
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