You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual read more
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.
We change, whether we like it or not
We change, whether we like it or not
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all read more
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or read more
The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present read more
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
When you are through changing, you are through.
When you are through changing, you are through.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. read more
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people\'s minds.