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# Donald Schön

Donald Alan Schön (September 19, 1930 – September 13, 1997) was an influential thinker in developing the theory and practice of reflective professional learning in the twentieth century.
    See also: On organizational learning (1999)

## Quotes

* Belief in the stable state serves primarily to protect us from apprehension of the threats inherent in change. Belief in stability is a means of maintaining stability, or at any rate the illusion of stability. But the most threatening situations are those that confront us with uncertainty, and by ‘uncertainty’, I don’t mean risk, which is a probability ratio which we all know how to handle, particularly those who are managers of industry. We can deal with risk.
** Donald Schon "REITH LECTURES 1970: Change and Industrial Society: Lecture 1: The Loss of the Stable State" at the BBC, 15 November 1970 – Radio 4; cited in: Richard Duane Carter (1981) Future challenges of management education. p. 102
* Old questions are not answered—they only go out of fashion.
** Schon (1971, 42) cited in: William G. Weissert, ‎Carol S. Weissert (2012) Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy. p. 296
* A social system does not move smoothly from one state of its culture to another... Something old must come apart in order for something new to come together. But for individuals within the system, there is no clear grasp of the next stable state - only a clear picture of the one to be lost Hence, the coming apart carries uncertainty and anguish for the members of the system since it puts at risk the basis for self-identity that the system had provided.
** Schon (1971: 51) cited in: Hedley Beare, ‎Richard Slaughter (1994) Education for the Twenty-first Century. p. 15-16

## Quotes about Donald Schön

* Another group at MIT and Harvard University developed the notion of “organizational learning.” Chris Argyris and Donald Schön were the key figures in this group. Argyris was a student of Kurt Lewin, who was a participant in the Macy Foundation meetings that were chaired by Warren McCulloch.
** Stuart A. Umpleby, and Eric B. Dent. "The origins and purposes of several traditions in systems theory and cybernetics." Cybernetics & Systems 30.2 (1999): 79-103. p. 87; About Organizational Learning
* Argyris is best known for his theory, in collaboration with the late philosophy scholar Donald Schön, on the two types of learning — single-loop and double-loop. This theory refers to the way people respond to changes in their environment. Single-loop learning is the repeated attempt at the same problem by an organization or individual, without varying the method or questioning the goal. Double-loop learning goes beyond that, modifying the goal in light of the experience.Argyris’s work raises profound questions about how organizations run, and casts doubt on what is widely accepted as good practice. But he offers management a profound exploration of the fundamental principles of organizational behavior and human interaction in the workplace.
** Chris Argyris, Harvard University: James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award at psychologicalscience.org, May 10, 2013.

## External links

* Infed.org profile on Schön
# Donald Tovey

Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 1875 - 10 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. He had been best known for his Essays in Musical Analysis and his editions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, but since the 1990s his compositions (relatively small in number but substantial in musical content) have been recorded and performed with increasing frequency. The recordings have mostly been well received by reviewers.

## Quotes

* The Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven must always be among the choicest possessions of all who love music and especially of those who make music their main object and study.
** Introduction to Tovey's Edition of the Beethoven Sonatas
# Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence (5 October 1919–2 February 1995) was an English film, television, and stage actor.

## Quotes

* I treat all film roles one way: very seriously," exclaims Pleasence. "I never play anything tongue-in-cheek, though at times it might appear that way. I'm a professional actor who has no particular approach to acting. I get the part, I read the script. If I decide to do it, I learn the lines. People expecting a longwinded explanation on my approach will be disappointed. I have no theory about acting. There is no method, there is no way. I just do it.
** INTERVIEW BY MARC SHAPIRO (February 1989)
# Donald Sanborn

Donald J. Sanborn (February 19, 1950 –) is an American sedevacantist bishop.

## Quotes

* Catholicism has an essence like anything else, a very, very defined essence with many, many characteristics. If something defects from Catholicism, it is opposed to the Catholic Church. There can be nothing more opposed than a false rite which is supposed to be the vehicle of truth. It’s like an evil or poisonous medicine. The very purpose of medicine is to cure. Poison is contrary to the very essence of medicine, and so you know a false rite is just something that is totally unacceptable.
** Interview with Bishop Donald Sanborn, on Vatican II, the SSPX, and the Motu Proprio (March 2009)
* Novus Ordo conservatives are ecclesiastical materialists. They can see only the continuity of lifeless institutions from pre- to post- Vatican II, and from that they conclude that salvation consists in adhering to these lifeless institutions. They see only the material side of the Church, its visible side, and turn a blind eye to the absence of the invisibles of the Church, especially the assistance of the Holy Ghost in keeping the Church free from error and defection.
** Ecclesiastical Materialism (July 31, 2017)
* ... we have labored under Modernism for these sixty years, and have watched with horror the disintegration of everything that made our Faith beautiful: Catholic doctrine, good and holy priests, an abundance of devout and zealous religious brothers and nuns, Catholic schools, Catholic universities, Catholic seminaries teeming with holy seminarians aspiring to the priesthood, the traditional Latin Mass, traditional sacraments, the Legion of Decency, religious habits, priests in cassocks and Roman collars, magnificent churches, elaborate ceremonies, Gregorian chant and other beautiful church music, discipline, orthodoxy, modest dress, good morals. I could go on. What I describe is the world of my childhood which, at the time, I took for granted, but which I loved and cherished.
** Sixty years since the death of Pius XII (October 29, 2018)
# Georges Simenon

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer of crime novels, best known as the creator of Commissaire Maigret. His adult life was largely spent in France, the United States and Switzerland.

## Quotes

* Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
** Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 146.
* The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
** Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 153.
* Fellini, je crois que, dans ma vie, j'ai été plus Casanova que vous! J'ai fait le calcul, il ya un an ou deux. J’ai eu dix mille femmes depuis l’âge de treize ans et demi. Ce n’ést pas du tout un vice. Je n’ai aucun vice sexuel, mais j’avais besoin de communiquer.
** You know, Fellini, I believe that, in my life, I have been more Casanova than you. I made the calculation a year or so ago that I have had 10,000 women since the age of thirteen and a half. It wasn't at all a vice. I have not the slightest sexual vice, but I have the need to communicate.
** Interviewed by Federico Fellini in L'Express, February 21, 1977, and cited from Daniel Golay et al. Simenon, un autre regard (Lausanne: L'Hebdo, 1988) p. 104; translation from Fenton Bresler The Mystery of Georges Simenon (London: Heinemann, 1983) p. 239.

## Criticism

* I never read contemporary fiction – with one exception: the works of Simenon concerned with Inspector Maigret.
** T. S. Eliot in the Sunday Times, 1952; cited from David Chinitz T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) p. 56

## External links

Georges Simenon Quotes
# Georges Lemaître

Georges Lemaître (17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic Priest, astronomer and professor of physics. He is primarily known as the Father of The Big Bang Theory.

## Quotes

* I have too much respect for God to make it a scientific hypothesis.
** Ho troppo rispetto per Dio per farne un'ipotesi scientifica.
*** As quoted in Andrea Tornielli, Il Creatore e le ipotesi della scienza (April 3, 2024)
* I was interested in truth from the point of view of salvation just as much as in truth from the point of view of scientific certainty. It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, and I decided to follow both of them.
** AIKMAN, Duncan, New York Times Magazine, February 19, 1933, p. 3
* The primaeval atom
** Description of the initial state of the universe. Article in Nature, 1931, vol 127, page 607
* We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.
** Article in Nature, 1931, vol 128, page 704
* There is no conflict between science and religion.
** New York Times, February 19, 1933
# Georges Laraque

Georges Edy Laraque (born December 7, 1976) is a Canadian sports commentator, politician, and former ice hockey player.

## Quotes

* Animals deserve to be treated with kindness. I love animals, and I don't believe humans can treat them as commodities and cause them harm. … I officially became a vegan on June 1, 2009. Even though it's quite a change in terms of nutrition, I have never felt better or so healthy in my life. Considering that I'm a professional athlete, that's quite important … I understand the impact I have in joining many groups like PETA. I don't do it to force people to be vegetarian or vegan. I just want to educate people on the subject to make this world a better place. … Many people … refuse to get educated on the matter because just like me, they're sensitive and afraid to make a change. But my friends, that change is not bad at all. … Millions of people around the globe are going vegetarian for the sake of animals, their health and the environment. I encourage you to give it a try too!
** “A Vegan Life”, in georgeslaraque.com (August 2009).
# Georges St. Pierre

Georges "Rush" St. Pierre (born May 19, 1981), often referred to as GSP, is a French Canadian mixed martial arts fighter and former UFC Welterweight and Middleweight Champion.

## MMA

* "People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport." **Interview with Isa Tousignant
* "A guy, a fighter is going to tell you that, ooh, he's not nervous, that he believes in himself 100%. I think he's a liar, or I think he's just not all there. Before [you] fight, you always have some little doubt about yourself, and I think that's what keeps you sharper. So yes, I was confident, but at the same time I was worried. I think that little feeling makes me sharper and makes me stronger."
** UFC 65 post fight press conference.
* "I am very glad you won that fight Matt, but I was not impressed by your performance and I look forward to fighting you in the near future"
** To Matt Hughes at UFC 63 after Matt beat BJ Penn in the 3rd round.
* "...and now, everybody, I want you to listen to me. I'm going to go to my knees, like that, and ask the UFC, my next match, to give me a world title shot. Please! I want the belt so bad! Please give it to me!"
** UFC 56 Post fight interview
* "I knew I hurt him, because when I threw my first elbow... he said 'UGGH!'"
** After fight with Sean Sherk at UFC 56, on breaking Sherk's nose.
* "I fought Hughes the first time, he beat me fair and square- fairly squarely, sorry."
** After fight with Sean Sherk at UFC 56, pleading for a rematch with Hughes.
* "Today I'm doing boxing in the morning, tonight I'll do my sprints. Tomorrow it's jiu-jitsu in the morning, Olympic wrestling in the evening, and Friday it's Muay Thai and then techniques or swimming in the evening, something like that. Every day I've got a routine that enables me to diversify my training. In this sport the most important thing is to be as complete a fighter as possible."
* "I went to a school where it was pretty rough - I'd get my clothes stolen, my cash. And at home life was pretty hard too. I had a difficult childhood, and I'm not saying that that's why I do ultimate fighting, but it helped shape my character."

## References

* 1 2 3 Interview with Isa Tousignant March 2, 2006
* ↑ UFC 65 post fight press conference
* ↑ ipamagazine
# Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789 as Georgetown College, it is the oldest Roman Catholic institution of higher education in the United States.
Arranged alphabetically by author or source: A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · External links

## A

* It’s been so long since last we met, Lie down forever, lie down; Or have you any money to bet, Lie down forever, lie down.
** Anonymous, first verse of "There Goes Old Georgetown," the fight song of Georgetown University. The song is an amalgamation of three different songs written in 1913, 1915, and 1930, and the author(s) and the source of the original union of the three are all unknown.
* There goes old… Georgetown, Straight for a… touchdown, See how they… gain ground, Lie down forever, lie down, Lie down forever, lie down.
** Anonymous, chorus of "There Goes Old Georgetown," the fight song of Georgetown University.
* Rah! Rah! Rah! Hurrah for Georgetown, Cheer for victory today. ‘Ere the sun has sunk to rest, In the cradle of the West, In the clouds will proudly float The Blue and Gray.
** Anonymous, "There Goes Old Georgetown," the fight song of Georgetown University.
* We’ve heard those loyal fellows up at Yale Brag and boast about their Boola-Boola. We’ve heard the Navy yell; We’ve listened to Cornell; We’ve heard the sons of Harvard tell How Crimson lines could hold them. Choo Choo, Rah Rah, dear old Holy Cross; The proud old Princeton tiger Is never at a loss. But the yell of all the yells, The yell that wins the day, Is the “HOYA, HOYA SAXA!” For the dear old Blue and Gray.
** Anonymous, "There Goes Old Georgetown," the fight song of Georgetown University.
* There goes old… Georgetown, Straight for a… rebound, See how they… gain ground, Lie down forever, lie down, Lie down forever, lie down.
** Anonymous, second chorus of "There Goes Old Georgetown," the fight song of Georgetown University.

## M

* All in all, finals come and go with much less fanfare than Alex imagined. It's a week of cramming and presentations and the usual amount of all-nighters, and it's over. The whole college thing in general went by like that. He didn't really have the experiences everyone else has, always isolated by fame or harangued by security. He never got a stamp on his forehead on his twenty-first birthday at the Tombs, never jumped in Dahlgren Fountain. Sometimes it's like he barely went to Georgetown, merely powered through a series of lectures that happened to be in the same geographical area.
** Casey McQuiston, Red, White and Royal Blue (2019), New York: St. Martin's Griffin, hardcover first edition, p. 161
# Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English soldier, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels.

## Quotes

* Men, single and in couples, shuffling past them, answering no questions. Tin hats on back of heads, and no tin hats, tin hats with splinter-ragged sandbag-coverings; men without rifles, haggard, bloodshot-eyed, slouching past in loose file, slouching on anywhere, anyhow, staggering under rifles and equipment, some with jaws sagging, puttees coiled mud-balled around ankles, feet in shapeless mud boots, swelled beyond feeling, men slouching on beyond fatigue and hope, on and on and on. GS waggons with loads of sleeping bodies. Stretcher-bearers plodding desperate-faced. Men slavering and rolling their bare-teethed heads, slobbering and blowing, blasting brightness behind their eye-balls, supported by listless cripples.
** The Patriot's Progress: Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock (1930), pp. 97-98
* With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears— weak, whiskey tears— would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.
** The Village Book (1930) – after a killing of a badger by villagers.
# Henry de Bracton

Henry of Bracton, also Henry de Bracton, also Henricus Bracton, or Henry Bratton also Henry Bretton (c. 1210 – c. 1268) was an English cleric and jurist. He is famous now for his writings on law, particularly De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ("On the Laws and Customs of England") and his ideas on mens rea (criminal intent). According to Bracton, it was only through the examination of a combination of action and intention that the commission of a criminal act could be established.

## Quotes

* The king must not be under man but under God and under the law.
** Bracton, vol 2, p. 33
# Henry de Montherlant

Henry de Montherlant (20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French novelist, essayist, and dramatist.

## Quotes

* Le bonheur écrit à l'encre blanche sur des pages blanches.
** Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
*** La Mort qui fait le trottoir (Don Juan) (1956)
# Henry Zebrowski

Henry Thomas Zebrowski, Jr. (born May 1, 1984) is an American actor and comedian, known for his work on the Adult Swim series Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, NBC series Heroes Reborn, and the podcast The Last Podcast on the Left.

## Quotes

* The Internet is a physicalization of our actual pure psychic connection to ourself and the universe, and it's becoming real ... so as we set up all these things that kind of fake our psychic connection, in terms of our wires and all [garbled] connect to computers ... now it's like it's kind of up to us to either join with it psychically and spiritually, because if not it's gonna [ __ ] eat us. (41:51)
* The Internet is a mirror of our subconscious thoughts. (63:51)
** Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli #142: The State of the Union Of Conspiracies with Henry Zebrowski podcast/youtube
* I was reading a really interesting breakdown of Dune, talking about the fractal nature of the series, and about how ideas spin off ideas, and spin off ideas, and spin off ideas ... and that the second trilogy, the only way to describe it, is Muppet Babies Dune, because everybody comes back as babies.
** Film Threat podcast live - Dune movie talk - Henry Zebrowski and Holden McNeely (May 10, 2021: 27m56s) YouTube

## See also

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_podcast_on_the_left

## External links

http://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com
# John Mingers

John Mingers (born 1951) is a British organizational theorist, and Professor of Operational Research and Systems at the Kent Business School at the University of Kent, known for his work in the field of problem structuring methods.

## Quotes

* By organization Maturana refers to the relations between components that give a system its identity, that make it a member of a particular type. Thus, if the organization of a system changes, so does its identity. By structure Maturana means the actual components and relations between components that constitute a particular example of a type of system. The organization is realized through the structure, but it is the structure that can interact and change. So long as the structural changes maintain the organization, the system’s identity remains.
** John Mingers, Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis. Contemporary Systems Thinking. New York: Plenum P, 1995
* Systems thinking is only an epistemology, a particular way of describing the world. It does not tell us what the world is. Hence, strictly speaking, we should never say of something in the world: “It is a system,” only: “It may be described as a system.”
** John Mingers (2006) Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science. p. 87.

## External links

* Professor John Mingers, Kent Business School - University of Kent
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# John Mitchel

John Mitchel (Irish: Seán Mistéil; November 3, 1815 – March 20, 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Born in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading Member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation.

## Quotes

* The people are beginning to fear that the Irish Government is merely a machinery for their destruction; that, for all the usual functions of Government, this Castle-nuisance is altogether powerless; that it is unable, or unwilling, to take a single step for the prevention of famine, for the encouragement of manufactures, or providing fields of industry, and is only active in promoting, by high premiums and bounties, the horrible manufacture of crimes!
** Article in The Nation newspaper on 8 November,1845, titled "The Detectives",on the Administration of Government in Ireland
* If there is to be a war between England and the United States, tis impossible for us to pretend sympathy with the former. We shall have allies, not enemies, on the banks of the Columbia, and distant and desolate as are those tracts beyond the Rocky Mountains, even there may arise an opportunity for demanding and regaining our place among the nations.
** Article in The Nation newspaper on 6 December, 1845, an article entitled "Oregon—Ireland", in reference to the dispute then pending between England and America about Oregon.
* Czar, I bless thee. I kiss the hem of thy garment. I drink to thy health and longevity. Give us war in our time, O Lord!
** From "Jail Journal; or Five Years in British Prisons"

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on John Mitchel on Wikipedia
* Media related to John Mitchel on Wikimedia Commons
* Works related to Author:John Mitchel on Wikisource
# John Milnor

John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems.

## Quotes about John Milnor

* His mathematical prose is simple, spare, and exceedingly beautiful. His prose style is to mathematics what Hemingway's is to English or Simenon's to French.
** Donal O'Shea (30 October 2008). The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe. Penguin Books Limited. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-14-190034-6.
# John Milner Fothergill

John Milner Fothergill, M.D. (11 April 1841 – 28 June 1888), was a British physician and medical writer.

## Quotes

* All the bloodshed caused by the warlike disposition of Napoleon is as nothing compared to the myriads of persons who have sunk into their graves through a misplaced confidence in the value of beef tea.
** Quoted in Shall We Slay to Eat? by John Harvey Kellogg, Good Health Publishing Company, 1899, p. 124.