Mesarovic Quotes

#1. Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

Donella Meadows

#2. No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

Henry Mintzberg

#3. D. J. Tanner called and she wants her wardrobe back so it can be included in a museum retrospective about the prime years of Full House.

Lena Dunham

#4. If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind (Chapter 65,p. 68)

Edward Gibbon

#5. Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

Ferran Adria

#6. You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Meeting Raven Wilkinson and having her as a mentor, it was that kind of support from the generations that came before me that helped to lift me up and give me the confidence to then be able to give back and bring other minorities with me on this journey.

Misty Copeland

#8. They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#9. I tell you once and for all -
in front of the angel pictures
on the wall, that I am not a host
to load-bearing ghosts or heady
entities, and if I was ever holy, I have fallen far
into the dense atmosphere of the living.

Kristen Henderson

#10. If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged ... just be willing to change.

Joyce Meyer

#11. In my experience, women underestimate the effect that their happiness has on the men in their lives.

Shawn T. Smith

#12. We are running out of time for dealing with this

Eric Illsley