Ervin Laszlo Quotes

In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.

Ervin Laszlo

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• Society
• Play
• Promise
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• Evolution

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• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Control
  • End

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • War
  • Best
  • Communication

• If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Single
  • Individual
  • Weapons

• Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Innocent
  • Protect
  • Fail

• Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • High
  • Simple
  • Mountain

• Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Powerful
  • Emotional
  • Influence

• In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Why
  • Enemy

• It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Equality

• ‘you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.’

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Question

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!Who has written such volumes of stuff!Some think him ill-tempered and queer,But a few think him pleasant enough.

  

  Edward Lear

• I can govern by bringing people together. And also, I've been tested in a way no one else has. I was governor on September 11th, and I'm proud of my leadership in bringing New York through that time. And when I left, we were stronger, we were safer, and we were more united than at any time in my lifetime.

  

  George Pataki
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Blush
  • My Work
  • Confessed

• 'No,' said Miss Marple. 'Murder isn’t a game.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Game

• Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

  

  Confucius
  • Want
  • Make
  • Others

• In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • God
  • Society
  • Play