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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.
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Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.
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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.
