Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.Edwin H. Friedman
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
Pat Buckley -
We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
Gary Lineker -
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain -
I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
Olivia Colman -
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf -
TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
Sally Phillips
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood -
The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
Rand Beers -
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Larry Smith
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I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.
Karen Kain -
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
Kate Grenville -
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
Harold Brodkey -
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett -
Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
Vanessa Hudgens
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
Feist -
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
James Bovard -
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.
Andrea Hirata -
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
Taylor Caldwell -
All the rays which convey the images of objects through the air are straight lines. Hence, if the images of very large bodies have to pass through very small holes, and beyond these holes recover their large size, the lines must necessarily intersect.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.
Edwin H. Friedman