Edgar Schein Quotes
In building the helping relationship, encouragement—via positive reinforcement—certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I am not honest.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
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Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
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I have worked with Chuck Grassley off and on through the years, and always had what I considered and what I think he'd consider a cordial working relationship.
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In building the helping relationship, encouragement—via positive reinforcement—certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting.
