Quotes of: Complex-system Keyword

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Every system of the body is interdependent with every other system. In truth, there is no separating them, any more than you can separate your body and psyche.

The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.

The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation

…it can hardly be over-exaggerated that speculative thinking is always drawn from the necessities of the time, that it is always practical, that it always shifts with the interests of the times, with the changes of social, economic, and political c...

An Introduction to Philosophy

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers...

Novalis: Philosophical Writings

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body

Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward—or the fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Pa...

The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking f...

Wonderstruck

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd als...

Kevin Mitnick

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that buil...

Michael Bennett

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the prob...

The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution

I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technolog...

James Cameron

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal bel...

Tom Araya

But destiny is a very peculiar thing, with a complex timing that is impossible to comprehend.

House of Aegea

To every complex challenge, there exist a define solution.

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

Indiscretion

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.

Illness Defined; The Theorem