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• The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Light, Community

  "Donald Davidson: A Short Introduction". Book by Kathrin Glüer, p. 213, December 5, 2011.

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• Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Problem, Claims, Crisis

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

  Bell Hooks

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• 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 Lappé

  Views, World, Assumption

  Frances Moore Lappé (1991). “Rediscovering America's Values”

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• Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

  Gary Busey

  Drinking, Blood, Recycling

  "I'm with Busey". Comedy, Reality-TV, www.imdb.com. (2003- ).

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• The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Religious, Apology, Hands

  "Brit Marling". Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 24, 2017.

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

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, World, May

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.111, University of Chicago Press

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• Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Change, Science, Men

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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• The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

  Donald A. Norman

  Starting Over, Way, Currents

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• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Impact, Political Revolution

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, University of Chicago Press

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• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Political Revolution, Issues

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1970). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”

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• Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Change, Science, Research

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns

  Bob Proctor

  Mind, Patterns, Conditioning

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 10, 2017

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• If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

  Stephen Covey

  Crazy, Reflection, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Europe, Important

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

  Karl Albrecht

  Dies, Hard, Ifs

  Karl Albrecht (1992). “The only thing that matters: bringing the power of the customer into the center of your business”, Harpercollins

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• Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Fighting, People

  "Women Leading the Way" by Robin Amos Kahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Thinking, Opposites, Space

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• 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

  Writing, World, Safe

  "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Technology, Tourism

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• Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Business, Technology, Ideas

  "Clean 15 Series: Can Open Innovation Save Canadian Clean Technology?", www.cbj.ca.

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• 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

  Strong, Military, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Heart, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

  Bernard Lown

  Acceptance, Science, Claims

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• Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

  William P. Young

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

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