Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
Octavia Spencer
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
Carice van Houten
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
Nadia Comaneci
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
Quincy Jones
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
Ozwald Boateng
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
Ram Charan
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People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
Dana Boente
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
Gary Ryan Blair
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
Kate Braverman
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I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.
Randy Pausch
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
Saint Ignatius
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Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.
Alice B. Toklas
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My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
Mitch Albom
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When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.
Max Heindel
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Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.
Walter Dill Scott
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
Edwin H. Friedman