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• What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

  Sarah Schulman

  Girl, Smart, Mirrors

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• Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Heart, Athlete, Technology

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• Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty much any idea will do - it need not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate, distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for truth.

  Terry Rossio

  Reality, Ideas, Understanding

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• I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

  Alan Ball

  Tv Shows, Littles, Tvs

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• I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.

  Billy Corgan

  Musical, Done, Succeed

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

  William P. Young

  Perception, Emotion

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• There's a paradox in every paradigm.

  Ani DiFranco

  Paradox

  Song: Paradigm

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• Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

  Janet Yellen

  Believe, Thinking, Order

  "The Outlook for the Economy and Monetary Policy". Janet Yelle's Speech to the Burnham-Moores Center at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, www.frbsf.org. February 22, 2010.

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• You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

  John Green

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Penguin

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• In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing access to capital to grow a business, creating a new paradigm for medical research, or pioneering innovative approaches to education: Empower the most talented people in each field and encourage them to pursue their passions.

  Michael Milken

  Encouragement, Business, Passion

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• 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

  Respect, Past, Two

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiring, New Beginnings, Want

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• Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

  Hedi Slimane

  Beautiful, Hipster, Needs

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• There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.

  Anne Waldman

  Roles, Kind, Poet

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You don't want to know the Truth, you want to know the truth as you understand it. This is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment. You think you already know the truth! You think you already understand how it is. So you agree with everything you see or hear or read that falls into the paradigm of your understanding, and reject everything which does not.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Fall, Thinking, Understanding

  "Conversations With God: Book One". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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• The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Medicine, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Creating, Justice

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• The interchange of information is creating a new paradigm for the energy efficiency market

  Greg Turner

  Creating, Information, Energy

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• 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

  Giving, September 11, Way

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• Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

  Bell Hooks

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Meditation, Relaxation, Causes

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• In general, the questions that are on our mind are the same questions that have been driving our work over the past decade. How do we bring order to this messy, unpredictable world of innovation? How can we dramatically improve the chances of creating a successful new-growth business? How can we do this again and again? More specifically, it has become very clear that the fundamental paradigms of market segmentation and branding are badly broken - and we're working on developing more useful theories for these dimensions of innovation.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Past, Broken

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Love Is, Sexuality, Attraction

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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• We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Practice, Cities

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