| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown |
| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich |
| "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing |
| "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." »Arnold Glasgow |
| "Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important." »Natalie Goldberg |
| "What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
| "I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes Hey, better try the emergency brake" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people." »Charles W. Tobey |
| "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." »Muriel Spark |
| "Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed." »Guy Finley |
| "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel |
| "I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie." »William Safire |
| "It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more." »Agnes Repplier |
| "When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others." »Eda LeShan |
| "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full." »Muriel Spark |
| "Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." »Bruce Lee |
| "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator." »Anonymous |
| "I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's." »William Blake |
| "No moral system can rest solely on authority." »A. J. Ayer |
| "History is a vast early warning system." »Norman Cousins |
| "Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system." »Stuart Stevens |
| "It's time for the human race to enter the solar system." »Dan Quayle |
| "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses" »Charles De Gaulle |
| New: We also know Zip Codes FYI! |
