Jay Forrester Quotes

#1. People who are shouting
never heard themselves,
speaking.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
25-9-2016

Petra Hermans

#2. The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

Jay Wright Forrester

#3. Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

Sania Mirza

#4. I haven't agreed with every one of my Republican colleagues or Democratic colleagues on every issue. But I'm supporting Donald Trump because we need change in this country.

Mike Pence

#5. I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Patricia Marx

#6. I believe babies are born as innovative personalities ... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

Jay Wright Forrester

#7. There is grace for forgiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Desmond Tutu

#9. I am familiar with the phrase, 'needle in a haystack' and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.

David Sadler

#10. The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.

Jay Wright Forrester

#11. A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

Robert Jordan

#12. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

John Piper

#13. While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

Neil Strauss

#14. Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Sergio Aragones

#15. Everyone's job is important, but no one is indispensable.

Chuck Noll

#16. Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.

Jay Wright Forrester

#17. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

Paula Hawkins

#18. Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

P.G. Wodehouse