Paradigm Quotes

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

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Way
  • Change

• 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

• Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Great
  • Fighting
  • Believe In

• Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Paradigm

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

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • World
  • May
  • Science

• More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Attitude
  • Belief
  • Behavior

• Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Way
  • Should
  • Values

• Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book The Sixth Extinction is that we are unusual.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Universe
  • Animal
  • Humans

• Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Habit

• We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Majority
  • Polite
  • Tactics

• Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Fall
  • Opponents
  • Criteria

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