#paradigm

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#been #data #death #describing #evaluation

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#arch #born #decline #into #living

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#new-normal #normality #paradigm-shift #paradigms #sacred-economics

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#economy #entirely #i #i am #idea

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. ↗

— David Jones

#exceptions #go #jail #knowing #law

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general. ↗

— Robert Shea

#like #military #organization #paradigm #religious

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

You can't change the fruit without changing the root. ↗

— Dr. Stephen R. Covey

#self-help #change

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. ↗

— Bruce Perens

#filtered #marketing #open #open source #paradigm