Subordinate Quotes

• Five Focusing Steps 1. IDENTIFY the system’s constraint. 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system’s constraint. 3. SUBORDINATE everything else to the above decisions. 4. ELEVATE the system’s constraint. 5. If in the previous steps a constraint has been broken Go back to step 1, but do not allow inertia to cause a system constraint.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Decisions
  • Steps
  • Identify

• The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Philosopher
  • Conceive
  • Human Understanding

• The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Ancient
  • Phenomena
  • Authors

• Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Ideas

• Head nodding has its origins in bowing to appear subordinate.

  

  Barbara Pease
  • Head
  • Origins
  • Subordinate

• We do not wish to become subordinate to any power. We will be friends with the powers of the world. We will be sincere friends to the powers that are sincere in their intentions and their friendship to us.

  

  Abd al-Karim Qasim
  • Friends
  • Sincere
  • Subordinate

• The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

  

  Paul Rand
  • Work
  • Signing
  • Subordinate

• Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Help
  • Injury
  • Confess

• There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Consider
  • Occasion
  • Subordinate

• The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Envy
  • Praise
  • Subordinate