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.Edgar Schein
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley -
I am not honest.
Larry David -
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke -
Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Yul Brynner -
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp
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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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
Barton Gellman -
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
Tatyana Tolstaya -
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
Salma Hayek -
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.
Tariq Ramadan
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Bullies always have another target.
Karen Handel -
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.
Yoko Ono -
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Daisy Ashford -
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
Karl Pilkington -
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack Obama
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The most successful people are so original.
Idina Menzel -
The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.
James Surowiecki -
I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.
Shad Gregory Moss -
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull -
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
Benedict Cumberbatch -
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.
Edgar Schein