Jay Wright Quotes

#1. In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

Arsene Wenger

#2. love will go down as
the fear of divination,
or the source of continuity
within divinity.

Jay Wright

#3. They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

Jay Leno

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

Jay Wright Forrester

#5. You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

Meryl Streep

#6. We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.

Jay Kay

#7. You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

Agnes Varda

#8. In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

James Wright

#9. As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

Fritz Sauckel

#10. So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jay Wright Forrester

#12. We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

Ted Trainer

#13. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

Lemmy Kilmister

#14. Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

James Cook

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

Jay Wright Forrester

#16. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

Alexander Pope

#17. 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