"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."

-- Herbert Simon

#Environment Quotes #Capacity Quotes #Permanent Change Quotes

“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters”
“Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.”
“We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.”
“In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.”

Source : Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
“I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.”
“The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“They are fuelled by an ideology that itself is non-negotiable and forms a continuum that links peaceful, law-abiding but nevertheless intensely ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.”

Source : "The Multicultural Menace, Anti-semitism and Me". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2006.
“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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