“A systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another.”

— C. West Churchman

Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 231; cited in Michael C. Jackson (2003) Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers. p. 139

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American philosopher and systems scientist 1913–2004

Chaim Potok book The Gift of Asher Lev

Source: The Gift of Asher Lev

“Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Variant: Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

Gilbert Ryle book The Concept of Mind

Source: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. VIII: Imagination, (2) Picturing and Seeing

“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”

Virginia Woolf book Three Guineas

Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 1, p. 18
Context: Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.

“Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes”

Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer

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