Edwin H Friedman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.
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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.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
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The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
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Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
-- Edwin H Friedman
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Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
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You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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