Edwin H. Friedman Quotes

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H. Friedman

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Love Is

• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm not a psychiatrist.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Psychiatrist

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Need
  • Trouble
  • Bank

• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Working
  • Start
  • Driven

• Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Head
  • Feet
  • Window

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Changes
  • Create
  • Uncertainty

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • People
  • Better
  • Enthusiasm

• So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

  

  Edmund Burke

• The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Waiting
  • Japanese

• American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials. You'll see black people in automobile ads, black women starring on their own television shows. We don't see that on British television.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Food
  • Vegan

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • May
  • Change

• People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Man

• If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Science

• Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Future
  • Leadership
  • Define