Paradigm Quotes

• The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Logic
  • Instant
  • Competing

• Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Acceptance
  • Claim
  • Paradigm

• Even when we feel like we have found theological common ground—like Abraham as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims—we quickly discover that even those paradigms have their limits. There are a million Hindus in this country, and over three million Buddhists, and neither of those communities would be called Abrahamic. But they live in America, too, and we have to have a paradigm that includes them.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Discover
  • Limits
  • Jews

• Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.

  

  Elinor Gadon
  • Community
  • Magic
  • Diversity

• We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Understanding

• Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

  

  Dave Snowden
  • Change
  • Produce
  • Saint

• Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Freedom
  • Independent
  • Emotion

• Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Speech
  • Translation
  • Human gift

• Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Embrace
  • Lenses
  • Interpreter

• If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Crazy
  • Opinion
  • Vision

• Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

  

  Deborah Kampmeier
  • Women
  • Feminist
  • Speaking

• All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Battle
  • Acceptance
  • Crisis

• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Political
  • Community

• The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Reflection
  • Social
  • Conditions

• Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Games
  • Individual
  • Break

• You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Control
  • Fashion
  • Decision

• If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Attitude

• Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Problem
  • Crisis
  • Claims

• If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Attitude

• By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Perspective
  • Principles
  • Fundamentals

• Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Health
  • Enough
  • Exercise

• Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Way
  • Change

• I have always maintained that paradigm shift away from signing Rock and Metal acts is part of the decline in sales the major labels have talked about for years. I mean, to me, that should be so obvious. For decades, literally, as long as Rock N' Roll has existed, a large swath of major label income came from Rock, and later, Metal bands. So if you essentially stop signing the thing that brought in a significant portion of your income, how are you confused when you don't sell as much? It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I still don't get it.

  

  David Ellefson
  • Cutting
  • Confused
  • Obvious

• The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • World
  • May
  • Science

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