Lewin Quotes & Sayings

Experience alone does not create knowledge — Kurt Lewin

If you want to learn about an organization, try to change it. — Kurt Lewin

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress. — Ben Lewin

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. — Roger Lewin

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them. — Ben Lewin

What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it. — Walter Lewin

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake. — Roger Lewin

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance. — Kurt Lewin

Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception. — Kurt Lewin

Niebuhr [Oden's Doctoral adviser at Yale and leading 20th century Christian theological ethicist] wanted all of his graduate students to have some serious interdisciplinary competence beyond theology, so I chose to be responsible for the area of psychology of religion. I hoped to correlate aspects of contemporary psychotherapies with a philosophy of universal history. The psychology that prevailed in my college years was predominately Freudian psychoanalysis, but my clinical beginning point in the late 1950's had turned to Rogerian client-centered therapy. The psychology that prevailed in my Yale years was predominantly the empirical social psychologists like Kurt Lewin and Musafer Sherif. I gradually assimilated those views in order to work on a critique of therapies and assess them all in relation to my major interest in the meaning of history. — Thomas C. Oden

Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers. — Ann Lewin-Benham

As summarized professionally by Lewin in Science69 (and popularly by Adler and Carey in Newsweek70), — Gary E. Parker

teachers choose materials, they consider materials' individuality; unusual — Ann Lewin-Benham

The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No. — Roger Lewin

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death! — Ben Lewin

No research without action, no action without research. — Kurt Lewin

The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story. — Marco Beltrami

I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same. — Walter Lewin

When I watch a movie, I don't want to see the extra bits. — Ben Lewin

I have always enjoyed the company of women. — Ben Lewin

PAUL REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955. REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell. RON JOHNSON. Hired by Jobs in 2000 to develop Apple's stores. JEFFREY KATZENBERG. Head of Disney Studios, clashed with Eisner and resigned in 1994 to cofound DreamWorks SKG. ALAN KAY. Creative and colorful computer pioneer who envisioned early personal computers, helped arrange Jobs's Xerox PARC visit and his purchase of Pixar. DANIEL KOTTKE. Jobs's closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee. JOHN LASSETER. Cofounder and creative force at Pixar. DAN'L LEWIN. Marketing exec with Jobs at Apple and then NeXT. MIKE MARKKULA. First big Apple investor and chairman, — Walter Isaacson

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle. — Ben Lewin

Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances. — Ann Lewin-Benham

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions. — Roger Lewin

There is nothing so practical as a good theory. — Kurt Lewin

When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. — Kurt Lewin

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. — Kurt Lewin

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success. — Ben Lewin

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. — Kurt Lewin

If you know only the name, you know nothing. — Walter Lewin

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past — Roger Lewin

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases — Kurt Lewin

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. — Kurt Lewin

All of you have now lost your virginity ... in Physics! — Walter Lewin

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on. — Ann Lewin-Benham

Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals — Walter Lewin

All anyone needs in life is a goal and the will to reach it! — Rod Lewin

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that. — Ben Lewin

to the depths of your awareness and to the unknown. The first steps are willingness and courage. Five minutes per day is enough to get started. Even a one-minute conscious pause will make a difference. Beginning with the simplest form of meditation can establish discipline, which focuses the mind — Myra Lewin

Physics Works, and I'm still alive! — Walter Lewin

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent. — Ben Lewin

There is nothing as practical as good theory. - KURT LEWIN — Katherine S. Van Wormer

In a wartime survey conducted by a team of food-habits researchers, only 14 percent of the students at a women's college said they liked evaporated milk. After serving it to the students sixteen times over the course of a month, the researchers asked again. Now 51 percent liked it. As Kurt Lewin put it, People like what they eat, rather than eat what they like. — Mary Roach

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. — Roger Lewin

Nothing is more practical than a good theory. — Kurt Lewin