Betty Sue Flowers Quotes

A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.

Betty Sue Flowers

• Awareness
• Governed
• Metaphors
• Disharmony

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• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Country
  • Free
  • Always

• And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Want
  • Space
  • Walk

• This is a beautiful time of year with spring beginning to burst forth in many parts of the world, bringing all of its colors, scents, and cheerful sounds. The miracle of the changing seasons, with the reawakening and rebirth in nature, inspires feelings of love and reverence within us for God's marvelous, creative handiwork.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Lonely
  • Solitude
  • Ages

• The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Acceptance

• Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Medicine
  • Massage
  • Wishing

• At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Night
  • Black
  • Attention

• Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Shame

• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

  

  William Blake
  • Desire
  • Shadow
  • Governs

• The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Free
  • Slave
  • Thinks

• Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

  

  Scott Stossel
  • Easy
  • Anxiety
  • Terror

• Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problems
  • Experiences
  • Lifetime

• But I still have him in the form of the finest and highest standard of what it means to be a journalist and critic. All my life, Roger Ebert has always been the bar I've tried to reach. I never will. But his example has made me stronger through failure.

  

  Andy Ihnatko
  • Example
  • Journalist
  • Standard

• Awareness in itself is healing.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Healing
  • Awareness

• If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

  

  Confucius
  • Desire
  • Answer
  • Kingdom

• I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Blood
  • Cruelty
  • Optimist

• This lack of awareness of a major source of the family chaos results in extensive, destructive and unnecessary acceptance, as well as self blame and guilt among family members.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Family
  • Chaos
  • Acceptance

• A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Awareness
  • Governed
  • Metaphors