Edwin H. Friedman Quotes

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

Edwin H. Friedman

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• 'ReadyMade''s first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • First
  • Three
  • Odd

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Help
  • Amazing
  • Influence

• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Cool

• January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Time
  • Live
  • Career

• I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Bridge

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• 'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Up
  • Together
  • Perfect

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Lead
  • Street
  • Warm

• I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Brain

• I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Money
  • Song
  • Show

• I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Play
  • Training

• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Free
  • Someone
  • Loving

• Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Many
  • Mental

• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Nature
  • Think
  • More

• Welcome to the Mile High City, ... and I really am.

  

  Don Meredith
  • High
  • City
  • Really

• Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Children
  • Friends
  • True

• When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writer
  • Use

• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Connection
  • Circumstances
  • Function

• The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Leader
  • Function
  • Regulation