Complex Systems Design: An Introduction

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Published 12/2014 English

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Some technologies are simple like a cup or hammer, some are complicated like a circuit board or car, but some are truly complex such as large information systems, supply chain networks, sustainable urban environments, health care systems or advanced financial services. These complex engineered systems are defined by consisting of multiple diverse parts that are highly interconnect and autonomous.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the application of complexity theory to the design and engineering of systems within the context of the 21st century, from the bigger picture of why we should care to key architectural considerations, It brings together many new ideas in systems design to present an integrated paradigm and set of principal to the design of complex systems.

A new design paradigm- In the first section of the course we will explore some of the major themes that are shaping the design and engineering of systems in the 21st century, such as the rise of sustainability, information technology, the revolution in services and economic globalisation, these will all provide a backdrop and reoccurring set of themes that will be woven into our discussion. This section will also give you an overview to complexity theory and the basic concepts that we will be using though out the course, such as the model of a system, a framework for understanding complexity and a definition for complex systems.

The last section of this model will give an overview to complex systems design providing you with a clear and concise description of what a complex engineered system is and how this new paradigm in design differs from our traditional approach.

Key concepts- Next we introduce you to the key concepts within this new domain, we will talk about services and product-service systems, designing synergistic relations in order to integration diverse components and one of the key takeaways form this entire course the idea of abstraction as a powerful tool for solving complexity.

Design Principals- In the third module to the course we discuss the primary principals that should govern our approach to designing complex systems. Firstly networks with these highly interconnected systems networks are their true geometry, understanding them and being able to see the systems we are designing as networks is one of our key principal. Secondly we will look at adaptive systems and how I.T. is enabling the next generation of technologies that are responsive, adaptive and dynamic, allowing for self-organisation and a new form of bottom up emergent design. Lastly in this section we will also cover the key mechanisms of evolution and how it effect the lifecycle to the system we are designing.

Systems Architecture- In systems architecture we begin to change gears to talk about the more practical mechanics of how to design complex systems based around a new systems architecture paradigm that has arisen within I.T. over the past few decades what is called Services Orientated Architecture, in this section we will discuss platform technologies and their internal workings, modular systems design and Event Driven Architecture which is particularly well suited to the dynamic nature of the systems we are developing.

Design Methods- Lastly we present a series of lectures on the design method or process best suited to complex systems design. In this module you will be introduced to design thinking that represents a repeatable set of stages in the design process for solving complex problems.

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Section 1: Complex systems design overview

In this lesson we are going to start the course off by taking a look at the bigger picture that is the environment or context within which we design and develop systems in the 21st century. Many factors point to the conclusion that we live in a time of transition, an unprecedented change, this change is both fundamental, rapid and multidimensional, The overarching paradigm that is often used to understand this change is that of a transition from an industrial age to a post-industrial information age, in this video we will discuss the key drivers that are part of this transition including, the rise of sustainability, the rapid expansion of economic globalisation, information technology and the huge growth in the services that has taken place over the past few decades.

This lesson will give you an overview to the area of complexity theory for designers and engineers. Starting with a look at Systems Thinking which is a more holistic way of seeing the world one that is characterised by the belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole. We will also discuss the model of a system and look at complexity along four key parameters namely: quantity, diversity, interconnectivity and autonomy. By understanding both what systems are and what exactly complexity is we will be able to formalise a definition for complex systems and wrap up by giving some example.

Complex systems design is a new area that is still very much in formation but in this lesson we will give a 2000 foot view of the domain. Starting by talking a bit about what design and systems design are we will then build upon this basic understanding of what design is to clearly illustrate our traditional approach that rests upon the assumptions and framework of modern science. By having a clear understanding of this traditional approach we will be able to see why it begins to fail and break down when dealing with systems that are highly interconnected, highly dynamic and whose components have some degree of autonomy. In this lesson we will also try to get a grasp on what exactly a complex engineered system is and have some examples at hand.

Complex systems design overview
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Section 2: Key Concepts

Service systems can be characterised by the value that results from the interaction between their components. A car sharing service might be a good example of this, by connecting people, technology and information we are able to deliver the end user with close to nothing but the pure functionality or services of personal mobility. Services follow a very different logic to that of our traditional product centric wold, in this section we discuss the services paradigm, talk about what exactly a service system is, give some examples and itemise the key characteristics to service systems.

Abstraction in its main sense is a conceptual process by which general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples. Conceptual abstractions may be formed by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose. For example, abstracting a leather soccer ball to the more general idea of a ball retains only the information on general ball attributes and behavior, eliminating the other characteristics of that particular ball. In a type–token distinction, a type (e.g., a ‘ball’) is more abstract than its tokens (e.g., ‘that leather soccer ball’).

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Section 3: Design Principals

Networks are emerging as the structure to our systems of organisation in the information age, though amazingly very little was know about them until quite recently. Within just the past few decades network theory has embarked upon a scientific quest for a deeper understanding of the nature of networks. Network theory asks basic questions about the degree of connectivity within a network, the structure of networks and the properties that these various structures give rise to. In this section we will discuss the networked nature to complex engineered systems and how they are largely defined by the structure and make up of the networks that constitute them.

Self-organization is a process where some form of global order or coordination arises out of the local interactions between the components of an initially disordered system. This process is spontaneous: it is not necessarily directed or controlled by any agent or subsystem inside or outside of the system. It is often triggered by random fluctuations that are amplified by positive feedback. The resulting organization is wholly decentralized or distributed over all the components of the system. As such it is typically very robust and able to survive and self-repair substantial damage or perturbations. In chaos theory it is discussed in terms of islands of predictability in a sea of chaotic unpredictability.

Co-creation is a management initiative, or form of economic strategy, that brings different parties together (for instance, a company and a group of customers), in order to jointly produce a mutually valued outcome. It views markets as platforms for firms and active customers to share, combine and renew each other’s resources and capabilities to create value through new forms of interaction, service and learning mechanisms. It differs from the traditional passive consumer market of the past.

Evolution is not simply a biological phenomena it is a process through which all adaptive systems evolve overtime whether they are social, natural or technical and it is defined by a few key elements, such as the creation of variety, adaptation and selection. Product life cycle is a corollary to this in that it describes the key stages through which engineered systems go through on their journey from cradle to grave. In this video we will discuss both and how we can harness the mechanisms of design in the systems we are developing to create truly sustainable technologies that internalise change and evolve overtime

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Section 4: Systems Architecture

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a design pattern based on distinct components providing application functionality as services to other applications via a protocol. This is known as service-orientation. It is independent of any vendor, product or technology. A service is a self-contained unit of functionality, such as retrieving an online bank statement. Services can be combined by other software applications to provide the complete functionality of a large software application. SOA makes it easy for computers connected over a network to cooperate. Every computer can run an arbitrary number of services, and each service is built in a way that ensures that the service can exchange information with any other service in the network without human interaction and without the need to make changes to the underlying program itself.

Platform technology is a term for technology that enables the creation of products and processes that support present or future or past development. It establishes the long-term capabilities of research & development institutes. It can be defined as a structural or technological form from which various products can emerge without the expense of a new process/technology introduction. In computing platforms, for example, computer hardware serves as platform for an operating system which in turn is a platform for Enterprise Infrastructure Software which in turn is a platform for application software. Transport infrastructure similarly serves as platform for vehicles. A platform technology increases the ease of manufacture. Fewer parts/sub-assemblies need be designed, made, and kept in inventory, and assembly workers don’t need so much training

Modular design, or “modularity in design”, is a design approach that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules or skids, that can be independently created and then used in different systems. A modular system can be characterised by functional partitioning into discrete scalable, reusable modules, rigorous use of well-defined modular interfaces and making use of industry standards for interfaces.

Besides reduction in cost (due to less customisation, and shorter learning time), and flexibility in design, modularity offers other benefits such as augmentation (adding new solution by merely plugging in a new module), and exclusion. Examples of modular systems are cars, computers, process systems, solar panels and wind turbines, elevators and modular buildings. Earlier examples include looms, railroad signalling systems, telephone exchanges, pipe organs and electric power distribution systems. Computers use modularity to overcome changing customer demands and to make the manufacturing process more adaptive to change (see modular programming). Modular design is an attempt to combine the advantages of standardisation (high volume normally equals low manufacturing costs) with those of customisation. A downside to modularity (and this depends on the extent of modularity) is that low quality modular systems are not optimised for performance. This is usually due to the cost of putting up interfaces between modules.

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events. An event can be defined as “a significant change in state”. For example, when a consumer purchases a car, the car’s state changes from “for sale” to “sold”. A car dealer’s system architecture may treat this state change as an event whose occurrence can be made known to other applications within the architecture. From a formal perspective, what is produced, published, propagated, detected or consumed is a (typically asynchronous) message called the event notification, and not the event itself, which is the state change that triggered the message emission. Events do not travel, they just occur. However, the term event is often used metonymically to denote the notification message itself, which may lead to some confusion.

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Protocols and contracts are the mechanisms through which elements in engineered systems interacted and cooperated, they represent a well defined syntax, semantics, and synchronisation of communications and behaviour. Communications protocols have to be agreed upon by the parties involved. To reach agreement, a protocol may be developed into a technical standard. Through these contracts and protocols we can essentially automate the interaction between components thus greatly facilitating the exchange of resources, cooperation and possibility of self-organisation

Systems Architecture Quiz
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Section 5: Design Methods

Design thinking stands for design-specific cognitive activities that designers apply during the process of designing. Design thinking has come to be defined as combining empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality in analyzing and fitting various solutions to the problem context. According to Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO, the goal of Design Thinking is “matching people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and viable as a business strategy” The premise of teaching Design Thinking is that by knowing about how to successfully approach and solve difficult, multi-dimensional problems – more specifically, effective methods to ideate, select and execute solutions – individuals and businesses will be able to improve their own problem solving processes and skills. There is also significant academic interest in understanding how designers think and design cognition. The first formal academic research symposium on Design Thinking was organized at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1991, and has developed into a regular series.

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In this slide show we will delve deeper in the Design Thinking process giving practical guidents for each stage in the process. Content by the Institute of Design at Stanford

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Think Academy, eLearning for systems thinking

Think Academy is an e-Learning site dedicated to the area of systems thinking and complexity theory, our mission is to take the world of complexity and make it accessible to all. Systems and complex can be intimidating subjects with many sophisticated concepts, this is why we believe it is important to always start with the most essential, simplest elements of a subject making sure that students come away with a solid understanding of the core concepts behind each area. As Einstein said "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"

Courses are curated and presented by Joss Colchester. Joss has extensive experience within the domain of complex systems both within academic research(mathematical modeling of complex system + network analysis) and has many years practical systems engineering experience(designing and developing complex web based information systems). He has a passion for taking abstract and complex concepts and making them concrete and accessible to as broad an audience as possible by combining clear and effective graphics with well structured course content.

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Хакимова Д. Ю. Using communicative technologies to increase student motivation in teaching vocabulary // Молодой ученый. — 2016. — №5. — С. 829-831.

The present article deals with the problem of applying different communicative technologies to increase student motivation in teaching vocabulary. To intermediate and advanced level students. Communication skills play a very important role effective learning a FL there ore advanced communicative technologies are necessary to teach the students to communicate in English. The article is of some practical value, as the authors suggest some practical recommendations on haw to work with vocabulary.

В данной статье речь идет об использовании коммуникативных технологий при развитии мотивации студентов к чтению. Так как чтение играет очень важную роль при изучении иностранного языка наряду с изучением устной речи. Статья также представляет определить практическую полезность, так как автор предлагает ряд практических рекомендаций по развитии мотивации студентов при изучении словарного состава языка.

Taking into account the communicative power of vocabulary, language teachers make every endeavor to facilitate the learning process. In recent years, there has been a trend to shift the focus away from the teacher and make students more responsible for their own learning. That is attempts have been made to design more student-centered activities for intended lexical input. Furthermore although a teacher’s explanations and examples may seem of great help in vocabulary learning, they are unlikely to become a long-term part of the learner’s vocabulary store. Presenting words is only the tip of the iceberg. Vocabulary learning is effective when it entails active engagement in learning tasks. To ensure that learners get to know the new words, they will need plentiful opportunities to engage with the words and to put them to work in a variety of contexts. That is, the teacher’s responsibility does not only lie in helping learners meet some new words, but also in making sure that those new words are learned, stored, and recalled. In other words, the learner needs not only to learn a lot of words, but to remember them as well.

Therefore in promoting vocabulary learning, there is a need for an approach, in which all learners are required to make contributions. Most importantly, language students need the willingness to be active learners over a long period of time: otherwise, there will be a low chance of retaining vocabulary regardless of the quality of instruction. Moreover, in order to learn and remember new words, learners should take part in different task-based activities such as conversation making games, role-plays, narrative writing, or even speaking tasks which especially focus on helping learners develop and use words in different contexts by making the lessons enjoyable.

Vocabulary learning is a memory task, but it also involves creative and personalized use, that is, learning and using. S.Brumfit, K.Johnson argue that meeting a word in a number of different environments will help learners grasp its full meaning. Moreover, it will help the learner realize what part of speech the word is, that is, if it is a noun or a verb, etc. he further highlights the importance of progressive fashion that goes beyond rote memorization in vocabulary learning. Students need to practice regularly what they have learnt; otherwise, the material will fade away. This means that language teachers’ great responsibility is to create opportunities through which learners are exposed to the new items. W. R. Lee claims that repeated exposure to new vocabulary in a meaningful context accounted for the vocabulary gains for his subjects. J. Jalolov argues that the most effective way of improving incidental learning is by reinforcing it afterwards with intentional learning tasks.

H. G. Widdowson points out that writing in context is a tool for general second language improvement provided that it pays special attention to vocabulary use. Furthermore, students begin to consider the relevancy of learning language in relation to the amount of enjoyment and interest they receive through narrative writing.

The results of the study carried out by G.Makhkamova on English as a Second Language (ESL) learners’ vocabulary use in writing and the effects of explicit vocabulary instruction indicated that 13.19 % of recognized target vocabulary was productive in writing after reading instruction and comprehension exercise and before target vocabulary instruction. This increased significantly to 63.62 % after target vocabulary instruction and productive use of newly learned vocabulary. Thus, newly learned productive vocabulary increased significantly in an immediate writing task after explicit instruction.

Finally, goals must be meaningful to the individual. The addition of word games to vocabulary instruction can boost student motivation and help them engage with vocabulary cognitively, which results in improvements in acquisition rates and deeper levels of processing W. R. Lee.

In his research on the effect of games on EFL learners’ vocabulary learning strategies. G.Makhkamova found that games have been shown to have advantages and effectiveness in learning vocabulary in different ways. First, games facilitate the retention of new words by bringing in relaxation and fun to learners. Second, they usually involve friendly competition and keep learners interested.

Speaking tasks such as split information tasks, class presentations, ranking activities and problem solving discussions are not usually thought of as having vocabulary learning goals. One of the reasons for this might be the fact that planning vocabulary learning as a part of a syllabus using productive, unpredictable activities in the discussion group seems very difficult. Drawing on recent research, it can be found out how a vocabulary learning goal can be effectively designed into many speaking activities. J.Jalolov (1991) provides an overview of interactive discussions regarding target vocabulary and maintains that discussions include identifying what the word means (semantics), how the words is used in sentences (syntax), how the word is divided into minimally significant units of meaning (morphology), and how the words can be used in a communicative context 9pragmatics).

Huong detected three categories: (1) the students provided examples of the words that they had learned; (2) joint learning of vocabulary in which the students shared their knowledge of words; and (3) collective memory in which group members through interaction helped other members in recalling and remembering words.

J.Jalolov reported that the students perceived the importance of vocabulary in the process of using English and not only were they engaging with words, but they were also using each other’s vocabulary knowledge. As the review of literature reveals, recent developments in learning vocabulary provide new opportunities for the application of many activities into education.

Research in learning vocabulary in a second/foreign language is well documented. However, no study has investigated the degree of the effectiveness of different post-teaching activity types in terms of learning vocabulary.

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In a large class, it is easy for students to feel alienated. If they feel that the teacher does not know them or care whether or not they learn, they will usually put very little effort into participating actively in the learning process. Some ways to motivate students of different language levels and ages in a large class are described below.

 Adapt the material according to the language level, age, and needs of students. In multi-age, multi-level classes, plan a variety of activities to appeal to as many students as possible.

 Develop sequential activities with several steps so that higher level students complete more while lower level students work at their own pace. When preparing worksheets, add some optional section for more advanced students.

 Use higher level students as assistant teachers or monitors who can help and support the lower level students.

 Prepare activities that allow students to show their different skills and interests.

 As much as possible, be available to students before and after class to establish personal relationships, so that they feel that they are individuals in the eyes of the teacher, not merely part of the herd.

 Make students aware of the goals of each learning activity. If they understand why they are doing it, they will participate more willingly.

 Make all activities success-oriented. Students will participate willingly in tasks that seem achievable. When they have confidence in their success, they will be motivated to try.

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Acromicric dysplasia is caused by mutations in the FBN1 gene, which provides instructions for making a large protein called fibrillin-1. This protein is transported out of cells into the extracellular matrix, which is an intricate lattice of proteins and other molecules that forms in the spaces between cells. In this matrix, molecules of fibrillin-1 attach (bind) to each other and to other proteins to form threadlike filaments called microfibrils. The microfibrils become part of the fibers that provide strength and flexibility to connective tissues, which support the bones, skin, and other tissues and organs. Additionally, microfibrils store molecules called growth factors, including transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), and release them at various times to control the growth and repair of tissues and organs throughout the body.

Most of the FBN1 gene mutations that cause acromicric dysplasia change single protein building blocks in the fibrillin-1 protein. The mutations result in a reduction and disorganization of the microfibrils. Without enough normal microfibrils to store TGF-β, the growth factor is abnormally active. These effects likely contribute to the physical abnormalities that occur in acromicric dysplasia, but the mechanisms are unclear.

Acromicric dysplasia is an autosomal dominant condition, which means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder. Most cases result from new mutations in the gene and occur in people with no history of the disorder in their family. In other cases, an affected person inherits the mutation from one affected parent.

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One provision in this bill would allow the IRS to take away the passports of US citizens

The U.S. Senate recently passed a new highway bill dubbed the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act", otherwise known as MAP21. The legislation made it through the Senate without much in the way of resistance and is expected to pass the House as well moving to the White House where Obama is likely to sign it into law.
Once the bill becomes law, all new 2015 model year vehicles will have to have complicated black boxes to record vehicle data. The black boxes are formally known as event data recorders and would be able to record information leading up to and shortly after an accident.
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir,
I directed a choir.
- Elizabeth Moon

58% of the American public are with us.
We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing,
- Cindy Sheehan

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as
it is because it's become it's a labor of love.
They love what they do.
- Charles Osgood

I feel a part of the congregation.
I've never had to do special music.
The kids sing in the choir.
It's just normal.
We're treated like everybody else.
- Amy Grant

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family
belonged to another church.
- Paul Lynde

- Kevin Richardson

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir,
it being found that I possessed a clear,
strong soprano voice.
I enjoyed the singing very much.
- James Weldon Johnson

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At St.
Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ.
We do not have rehearsals during the week.
We do not have a professional choir.
- Richard Morris

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir.
My mum was the organist in the church,
so I'd sing in the church.
- Enya

I have the background singers of Ray Charles,
the background singers of Smokey Robinson,
- Della Reese

I was the star of the choir.
- Jai Rodriguez

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school,
junior high and high school.
- Kevin Richardson

so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense,
but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
- Tina Fey

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy.
World War cast the first stone.
- Ernst Zundel

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth -
in a word,
all those bodies which compose the frame of the world -
have not any subsistence without a mind.
- George Berkeley

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir
and directed choirs and always performed,
but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.
- Charles King

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy.
I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their
parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.
- Lucas Grabeel

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison.
This is something that is not excused.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with
- Della Reese

My mother raised me in the church.
I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday;
there was no option.
I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
- Steve Harvey

The first time I sang in the church choir;
two hundred people changed their religion.
- Fred Allen

It is my belief that everything you need to know about
the world can be learned in a church choir.
- Connie Willis

I was more interested in becoming a musician.
- Cassandra Wilson

In junior high, I sang in madrigals,
men's' and women's' choir.
I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
- Travis Barker

I got in the school band and the school choir.
It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out.
I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school
forever just tinkering around with different things,
the clarinets and the violins.
- Quincy Jones

I want to host a religious show.
I think we should really get some of our own preachers
and preach that gay is good.
And we'd have a great choir.
- Kate Clinton

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly -
She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago,
when I was about 12.
I remember she told me to start with the choir and
just see where it took me.
- Susan Boyle

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at
my audience and I saw people that -
were I not on the stage -
they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk.
And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
- Michael Stipe

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir.
So we went to London and said, This is Disney!
I need singers who can sing high D's,
hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
- David Friedman

I've been playing music all my life,
from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster
to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State.
Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
- Arthur Godfrey

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place,
we will again see choirs being developed.
- Richard Morris

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves
and the blessed choirs of heaven?
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews,
where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living,
a Labour government - yes, a Labour government -
is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
- Polly Toynbee

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir

- Chinese proverb

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam

I remember when the candle shop burned down.
Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
- Steven Wright

It gets the hurt out in the open into the light,
out of the darkness.
- Reba McEntire

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh,
how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling

Not being guilty, you will have the freshness
of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have
a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet
and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
- Osho

The only thing better than singing is more singing.
- Ella Fitzgerald

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
- P. J. Harvey

I started in 1946 in radio.
I was ten years old.
I was discovered singing in a school play.
Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
- Hector Elizondo

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing.
I want my mind as clear as possible.
- Bobby McFerrin

Singing instrumental music is most important because,
while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument...
actually, you are singing inside.
- Ali Akbar Khan

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought
that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
- Lesley Garrett

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
- Jean Philippe Rameau

He didn't want me to become a musician,
he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
- Nusrat F. A. Khan

she told me that I would probably spend the rest of
my life taking care of my voice.
- Johnny Mathis

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
- Compay Segundo

All my songs were solo voices.
Just me singing.
In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick.
Just singing straight with not too much background.
- Bobby Vinton

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is,
and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
- Mariah Carey

I hate straight singing.
That's all I know.
- Billie Holiday

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to
give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
- Stevie Nicks

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
- Kate Smith

Not professionally as much, but around the living room,
the campfire, that kind of thing.
- Gregory Harrison

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials,
has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
- Marshall McLuhan

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.
- Alfredo Kraus

The Indian knew how to live without wants,
to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible,
and singing the songs of David.
- William Brewster

The closest I ever came to getting married was just
before I started singing.
In fact, my first record saved my neck.
- Elvis Presley

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me.
It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
- David Friedman

my spine got out of alignment.
- Don Henley

Singing is a way of escaping.
It's another world.
I'm no longer on earth.
- Edith Piaf

- Clay Aiken

It happens to the best of them.
You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice.
No excuses.
I blew it.
- Bobby Darin

You know, your speaking voice comes back,
but your singing voice you use in a different way.
- Kathy Mattea

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing,
a lot of people would be drowning.
- Simon Cowell

my singing and the band that I have.
- Mick Taylor

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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely
everything that Schubert ever wrote.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night.
Brahms lost.
- Bennett Cerf

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
- Esa-Pekka Salonen

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on
the air today are going to be played for as long a
time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
- Oscar Peterson

Brahms' Variations are better than mine,
but mine were written before his.
- Franz Liszt

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard
is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
- Johannes Brahms

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that
they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms.
But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy,
Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
- Kurt Masur

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I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to
me it ought to be more restrained,
- Johannes Brahms

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely,
we don't really make anything new out of it,
we merely overload it.
- Johannes Brahms

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music.
We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn,
which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is,
and how bad you are.
- Elliott Carter

- Johannes Brahms

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted,
I beg his pardon.
- Johannes Brahms

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme,
as their real subject.
Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
- Johannes Brahms

A symphony is no joke.
- Johannes Brahms

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me,
directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye,
but they are clothed in the right forms,
harmonies, and orchestration.
- Johannes Brahms

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and
jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those
who refuse to do likewise,
and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
- Johannes Brahms

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

- Robert A. Heinlein

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

he believed in me.
- Jim Valvano

My mother was the influence in my life.
She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate
triumph of justice and hard work.
She believed passionately in education.
- John H. Johnson

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
- Bob Riley

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their
money than the government ever could.
- Kay Bailey Hutchison

I believed in myself.
I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
- Imran Khan

Real love is never a selfish emotion.
If you want something from someone -
especially if that something is sex -
what you are feeling is not true love.
True love is about wanting happiness for the person you love -
and not about seeking happiness for yourself.
Fortunately, in most cases our own loving presence
Nonetheless, the litmus test of love is knowing
we would choose never to see that person again
if we believed that distance would bring them greater happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The nineteenth century believed in science but the
twentieth century does not.
- Gertrude Stein

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune,
and nothing upon ourselves.
- Lord Byron

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
- Elbert Hubbard

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself.
He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine;
so he became a pharmacist,
but he believed in that hardly more.
- Claude Chabrol

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical,
and we did that for five years.
- Steve Case

I always believed that whatever had to be written would
somehow get itself written.
- Seamus Heaney

I have always believed, and I still believe,
that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way
- Hermann Hesse

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before,
I believed in Col.
North and there was a very solid and very valid reason
that he must have been doing this.
- Fawn Hall

I always believed that women have rights and that there
are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights.
There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
- Shakira

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash.
There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
- Thom Yorke

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according
to what some people think is public taste.
- Les Baxter

It is, I guess, politically correct,
widely believed,
It's not.
- Donald Berwick

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you
can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage -
which no previous society has ever believed.
- Alain de Botton

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy
and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately
allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
- Klaus Fuchs

- Howard Cannon

It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell

- Jimmy Page

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in,
and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
- Rafael Palmeiro

join hands and celebrate all the arts.
- Franco Zeffirelli

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values,
we believed, than in a flight underground.
- John Charles Polanyi

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection
of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
- Timothy Radcliffe

personally and bottom line.
- Mario Puzo

We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry
is something that was required ten years ago.
- Sanjay Kumar

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was
the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
- Zell Miller

Learning is always rebellion...
Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary
to what was believed before.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me:
my husband,
my son.
- Judy Collins

then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty,
to go through with that particular course of action.
- Wole Soyinka

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
- Lionel Barrymore

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges,
and I believed in myself.
- Muhammad Ali

You have to keep running.
I always believed I was going to be safe.
- Rickey Henderson

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty
in causing my rights to be respected.
- Eli Whitney

If women believed in their husbands they would be a
good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
- H. L. Mencken

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress
is due to his own efforts,
and 2% to his teacher.
- John Philip Sousa

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance.
I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers,
and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
- Charles Barkley

- Aesop

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
- Ted Lindsay

I've always believed that if you put in the work,
the results will come.
- Michael Jordan

Who never doubted, never half believed.
- Ambrose Bierce

We shall meet again.
I have believed in God.
I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
- Adolf Eichmann

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for
telling what he believed to be the truth.
so there you are.
- Thom Yorke

I had no idea that he was going to write that,
but I've always believed that insecurity was what would
keep you always in your innocence,
no matter what the business did.
- Sally Kirkland

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