Edwin H. Friedman Quotes

It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.

Edwin H. Friedman

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• I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Today
  • Feeling

• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Love
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • May
  • Movies
  • Old

• I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Films
  • Big
  • Lots

• It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Family
  • Achieve
  • Just

• I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Libertarian

• I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Social
  • Very

• I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Size

• I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Government
  • Talent
  • Losing

• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

  N. K. Jemisin

• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

  

  Al Lopez
  • Great
  • Feeling

• I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

  

  Jayne Ann Krentz
  • Violence
  • Romantic

• I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Enough
  • Imagine
  • Levels

• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Lies
  • Public
  • Spoken

• Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Important
  • Writing
  • War

• Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Public
  • Arguments
  • Humanitarian