Changing the existing reality, build a new model, FORMS

October 20, 2013            Mrs. J Musing .

Study notes:

I was looking back through my journal today; and noted an assortment of thoughts I had recorded in the last six months. I collected a few here to see if I find a pattern in the learning.

Chip McGregor

“…the  greatest means of impacting the future is to build into another person’s life.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model (or help someone else to build it?) that makes the existing model obsolete. –Buckminster Fuller

Thomas B. Aldrich

“A thing cannot be weighed in a scale not capable of containing it.” 

(Who can measure the potential of a human mind accept God?)

From “How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One” by Professor Stanley Fish

“Syntax gives words the power to carry meaning.” “Syntax (FORMS): “Tie yourself to forms and the forms will set you free.”

Edwin Schlossberg

 “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” (Create a content through powerful understanding and use of written FORMS….build a new model?)

John Green

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together, unless and until all living humans read the book.” (Personal content poured into the FORMS of our language; change lives.) The Book Thief had that effect on me; it is hard to ‘study’ as such, needing, rather to be absorbed and digested……….

All are welcome to add thoughts to my musings........