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
Quotes to Explore
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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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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
Dan Barber -
I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
Lady Gaga
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Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
Leslie Jamison -
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
Jose Marti -
But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.
John Sweeney -
I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.
Sadegh Hedayat -
Yeah, it's funny how 30 years and having families and developing lives tends to change people.
Eric Carmen -
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