Source: Desert Places
“A systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 231; cited in Michael C. Jackson (2003) Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers. p. 139
“You don't need to travel, laughter is an instant vacation”
Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor
Variant: Laughter is an instant vacation.
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
“If what the eye sees does not rankle in the heart
Sweet is the flow of life in travel spent.”
Ghalib (1797–1869) Urdu-Persian poet
Ghalib (M. Mujeeb), p. 15
Poetry, Couplets
Thomas Carlyle book Past and Present
Past and Present.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 40, "The Brook Beyond Briah" (p. 285)
W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1535/ <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) <br class="br">Context: Opinion is not worth a rush;<br>In this altar-piece the knight,<br>Who grips his long spear so to push<br>That dragon through the fading light,<br>Loved the lady; and it’s plain<br>The half-dead dragon was her thought,<br>That every morning rose again<br>And dug its claws and shrieked and fought.<br>Could the impossible come to pass<br>She would have time to turn her eyes,<br>Her lover thought, upon the glass<br>And on the instant would grow wise.
