Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
In any type of institution whatsoever, when a self-directed, imaginative, energetic, or creative member is being consistently frustrated and sabotaged rather than encouraged and supported, what will turn out to be true one hundred percent of the time, regardless of whether the disrupters are supervisors, subordinates, or peers, is that the person at the very top of that institution is a peace-monger.
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We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.
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When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
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The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
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For a long time I though that one had to accomplish something. Now I just watch, listen, receive. Live.
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I find it insane to say, "Work hard," when the harder you work, the more you pay in taxes... Crazy.
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The national media which I consider to be very racist against European Americans and I think they have caused the incitement of African Americans against European Americans.I also think that they have also facilitated European Americans being angry at African Americans.
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Many of us who affirm and practice spiritual gifts would feel more comfortable among anticharismatics who are at least grounded in Scripture than among such flaky charismatics.
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I thought I was unhappy before… I was just a stupid young kid that didn’t know what happiness was. I was like a snot in a candy store who not only wanted all he could eat, but the whole thing. Life is stupid. Stupid. Or at least to this point, mine is.
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We don't need more bullying, and I'm tired of it.
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I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.
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I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.
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Regardless of where you are, I invite you, in the following pages, to discredit the view that the second half of your life will never measure up to the first. Instead of giving up and settling for life on its own terms, you are ready for new horizons, new challenges. You are ready to move from success to significance.
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Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.
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When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"
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In any type of institution whatsoever, when a self-directed, imaginative, energetic, or creative member is being consistently frustrated and sabotaged rather than encouraged and supported, what will turn out to be true one hundred percent of the time, regardless of whether the disrupters are supervisors, subordinates, or peers, is that the person at the very top of that institution is a peace-monger.
