Donald Schon Quotes

#1. Good metaphors are "generative."13 The psychologist Donald Schon introduced this term to describe metaphors that generate "new perceptions, explanations, and inventions." Many

Chip Heath

#2. If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

Rebecca West

#3. Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

Suriya

#4. What I was saying is that Israel cannot count on the United States.

Joe Biden

#5. A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

Mark Twain

#6. This year, everything is going to be different. No one in Fischer Hall is going to die this year. Not even accidentally."
"How are you going to manage that?" Coop asks, gnawing on a Chinese sparerib. "Bubble wrap all your residents?

Meg Cabot

#7. Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule ... It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.'

Ward Connerly

#8. competent practitioners usually know more than they can say. They exhibit a kind of knowing-in-practice, most of which is tacit. Nevertheless,

Donald A. Schon

#9. Life is a practice. You are what you do each day.

Bryant McGill

#10. There are things in life you hope to do some day - like ride in a hot air balloon or go to Paris- and there are things that you know you will never do because, in a nutshell, the desire isn't there.

Alice J. Wisler

#11. We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

Warren Buffett

#12. I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

Adrian Tomine

#13. Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

Martin Sheen

#14. In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

Henry Ward Beecher