World Paradigm Quotes

#1. When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#2. The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

Wade Davis

#3. The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

Mark Batterson

#4. American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#5. The World is a product of all the different cultures in the World. True World impact and change of direction will be done by the shifting the paradigm of every world culture.

Matthew Donnelly

#6. Concepts like millionaire and money are abstract and part of a delusional world, so you won't be able to understand the application of the knowledge if you keep thinking with the same paradigm that made you poor.

Daniel Marques

#7. Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?

Robert Buettner

#10. I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

Kenzaburo Oe

#11. The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated

Sarah Silverman

#13. The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Matthew Fox

#14. Flow tends to be the psychic signature of world-class performance and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs,

Steven Kotler

#15. Shepley's girlfriend had introduced me to my very own form of crack. I couldn't get enough, and I didn't want to quit.

Jamie McGuire

#16. I fear we have become a society more interested in writing the quote of another, than living the lesson, and creating a quote of our own.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#17. All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

Sean Covey

#18. Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

Tyler Perry

#19. Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

James Gleick

#20. A valiant deed unsung is no less valiant.

George R R Martin

#21. To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Eric Brown

#22. God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Bono

#23. Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

Leroy Hood

#24. Although the world may be stingy and hostile to other people, there is no reason why we should buy into this paradigm. When we buy into it, we make it that way in our own life.

David R. Hawkins

#25. Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

William J. Clinton

#26. I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

Ayad Akhtar

#27. Hallyu is the world's biggest, fastest cultural paradigm shift in modern history.

Anonymous

#28. Headphone aren't big enough these days. Why not just throw a couple of stereo speakers in a full face motorcycle helmet.

Dov Davidoff

#29. I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it's a whole new paradigm.

John Kasich

#30. So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world's most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic paradigm that doesn't even begin to engage art's most exciting provinces (139).

Maggie Nelson

#31. We sometimes cannot conceive of how the new paradigm could be true or see the reasons to reject an old paradigm until we have started looking at the world through the lens of the new paradigm.

Angus J.L. Menuge

#32. I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.

Chris Benz

#33. Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

Neale Donald Walsch

#34. I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

Grace Cavalieri

#35. Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

Frances Moore Lappe

#36. The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait while the world's ethicists work out some centuries-long paradigm shift in moral thought.

Matthew Scully