S Quotes
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“Systematisch antrainierte Selbstunterforderung ist der bequemste Weg in die Selbstauslöschung.”
Source: Sorry Cassandra! Warum wir unbelehrbar sind
“Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den einen oder anderen nützlichen Hinweis geben. Die beste Anleitung bieten persönliche Launen – das Vertrauen auf das Lustprinzip und der Glaube an den Zufall -, die uns manchmal in einen provisorischen Zustand der Gnade versetzen, uns ermöglichen, Gold aus Flachs zu spinnen.”
Source: Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World
“Systemic change can be unsettling due to its inherent complexity.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Systemic change is a slow and tedious process,
It doesn't happen overnight by vandalizing society.
If vandalism and activism were one and the same,
Our jungly ancestors would've been the ideal humanity.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Systemic change takes time, but individual choice can be immediate.”
“Systemic disruption requires us to accept that there may be no measurable data to fully substantiate our understanding of those disruptions. Imaging and exploring the multiplicity of potential futures which may arise from disruptions is a creative exercise, not a number-crunching one.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Systemic disruption will continue to drive significant shifts in business models, value creation, and value destruction.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Systemic inflammation is a component of altitude sickness.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Systemic racism continues hard and strong,
particularly against Indigenous people,
Why else would we be one of only four countries in 2007
to vote against a United Nations Global Declaration of Indigenous Rights?
We need to learn more.
We need to do better.
We are all woven together
in the fabric of the Earth
and over time
we will all thrive or fail
together.”
“Systemic study of national differences requires a certain generosity as well as tough-mindedness. The study of comparative religions has flourished only when men are secure enough in their own convictions to be unusually generous. They might be Jesuits or Arabic savants or unbelievers, but they could not be zealots. The study of comparative cultures too cannot flourish when men are so defensive about their own way of life that it appears to them to be by definition the sole solution in the world. Such men will never know the added love of their own culture which comes from a knowledge of other ways of life. They cut themselves off from a pleasant and enriching experience.”
Source: The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture
“Systemize your day. Structure and consistency are key to achieving your goals and creating the life you want.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“Systemizing and empathizing are wholly different kinds of processes. You use one process—empathizing—for making sense of an individual’s behavior, and you use the other—systemizing—for predicting almost everything else. To systemize you need detachment in order to monitor information and track which factors cause information to vary. To empathize you need some degree of attachment in order to recognize that you are interacting with a person, not an object, but a person with feelings, and whose feelings affect your own.”
Source: The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
“Systemkritik ist oft ein elegantes Alibi, um die Verantwortung des einzelnen Individuums kleinzureden.
Criticism of the system is often an elegant alibi, to downgrade the responsibility of the individual.”
Source: All you need is less: eine Kultur des Genug aus ökonomischer und buddhistischer Sicht
“Systems 1 and 2 are both active whenever we are awake. System 1 runs automatically and System 2 is normally in a comfortable low-effort mode, in which only a fraction of its capacity is engaged. System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 adopts the suggestions of System 1 with little or no modification. You generally believe your impressions and act on your desires, and that is fine—usually.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.”
“Systems and rules are guidelines, leadership is lifeline.”
“Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.”
“Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.”
“Systems are critical. They offer you confidence, stability, and measurable progress, but they have limits, too. They keep you squarely in your head.”
“Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.”
“Systems are made by people — and they can be changed by love”
“Systems are made by players rather than players making systems”
“Systems are never final, they must always be evolving”
“Systems are static, but people are dynamic. When leaders design systems to evolve people, bureaucracy is born.”
Source: Quantraz
“Systems are static; people are dynamic. The static system can't evolve dynamic people.”
Source: Quantraz
“Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.”
“Systems build structure. But soul builds service.”
“Systems built on hierarchy, separation, and power are finally cracking. But the collapse isn’t the end. It’s the pivot. The evolutionary pressure point. A call toward Homo Participans—a being who doesn’t just know or react, but communes, integrates, and participates.”
“Systems carry you further than speed ever will.”
“Systems, data, and machines are emotionless in isolation. The problem pops out when they interact with humans.”
Source: Quantraz
“Systems design is critical to solving big problems.”
“Systems die; instincts remain.”
“Systems do what they're designed to do, It's people who are more complicated”
Source: Satellite
“Systems don’t break. They optimize—until people become variables.”
“Systems don’t kill creativity. Chaos does.”
Source: The Leverage Point: How Smart Founders Stop Doing Everything & Start Achieving Anything
“Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.”
“Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.”
“Systems don't win, players do.”
“Systems fail when extraction exceeds renewal.”
“Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.”
“Systems have truly been disrupted and things will never be the same after this pandemic, it's time to rethink ministry, rethink church, rethink work, rethink life and rededicate to God.”
“Systems now do the bulk of the work; there is a perpetualness to racialized poverty and oppression. At a certain point – one long since passed in America – little effort is required to maintain the structures. Hopelessness and despair seep into the psyche. The damage becomes generational inheritance and culture caste.”
Source: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
“Systems of faith are systems before they are places of faith. They are made by people
and share the flaws of their builders.”
Source: The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
“Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.”
“Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice, proportionality may break down: offences created by the elite few become offences against the entire community.”
Source: Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility
“Systems of schooling are over managed and under led.”
Source: Strengthening the Heartbeat: Leading and Learning Together in Schools
“Systems of supremacy and domination ultimately imperil even those who, in many crucial respects, benefit from them. Racism, while it elevates whiteness, is weaponized to erode the welfare and wages that would enable white people to lead healthier, less precarious lives. Misogyny hurts men economically and emotionally, as gendered pay gaps suppress overall wages and through the trap of destructive and often violent standards of masculinity. Transphobia impacts everyone by imposing state-sponsored gender norms and curtailing freedom and self-expression. Ableism, by devaluing and dehumanizing the disabled, dissuades people from demanding the social services and public assistance they need as they cope with illness or aging. The inequality and pursuit of endless growth that drive climate change endanger the homes, infrastructure, and supply chains on which the wealthy and working class both rely—not to mention the complex ecosystems in which we are all embedded.
Solidarity, in other words, is not selfless. Siding with others is the only way to rescue ourselves from the catastrophes that will otherwise engulf us.”
Source: Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
“Systems other than science that can contribute to healing are worthy of respectful exploration, especially those that provide connectedness - connectedness between the healer and the healed, connectedness with compassion and empathy, connectedness with one's own feelings, and connectedness with spirituality, with the universe and the higher powers. The psychological issue of connectedness has been missing from healing in recent years. This gap between scientific objectivity and connectedness is beginning to narrow, even within the boundaries of American Medical Association (AMA) medicine.”
Source: Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors
“Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.”