Framework Quotes - Page 2

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  Fernand Braudel

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “On History”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.

  Paul Hawken

  Years, Information, Today

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• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Order, Sound

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• The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

  Javier Solana

  Iraq, Keys, Views

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• He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Responsibility, Successful, Corporations

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• I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  People, Judging, Decision

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• The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Art, Nature

  "The Culture of Cities". Book by Lewis Mumford. Introduction, 1938.

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• Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  Iron, Yellow, Nerves

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Knowing, Expectations

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• To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

  Warren Buffett

  Emotional, Discipline, Decision

  "3 Books That Changed Warren Buffett's Life" by Patrick Morris, www.fool.com. December 25, 2013.

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• The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

  John Carroll

  Objectivity, Analysis, Facts

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

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• Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, Understanding, Together

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• You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

  Joan Cusack

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Thinking, Judging

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

  Hannah Arendt

  Life, Law, Civilization

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Cutting, Thinking, Important

  Stephen Jay Gould (1996). “Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin”, Vintage

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• The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

  Norwood Russell Hanson

  Objectivity, Subjectivity, Influence

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• We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have to have a framework for understanding and of interpretation in order to make use of the information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Understanding, Use

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

  Reid Hoffman

  Moving, Data, Vision

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• Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Something New, New You

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Writing, Defining, Language

  'Thinking in Primitive Communities' in Hoyer (ed.) 'New Directions in the Study of Language' 1964

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• However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

  Robert Fripp

  Views, World, Sophisticated

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• I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

  Don Shula

  Team, Winning, Player

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• I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

  Samuel Wilson

  Physicians, Records, Medical

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• To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

  Vannevar Bush

  May, Facts, Spirit

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