Irwin Federman famous quotes

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
-- Irwin Federman

#Being Happy #People #Feels

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect
-- Irwin Federman

#Leadership #Jobs #Giving

If you think about it, we love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel. In order to willingly accept the direction of another individual, it must make you feel good to do so...If you believe what I'm saying, you cannot help but come to the conclusin that those you have followed passionately, gladly, zealously~have made you feel like somebody...This business of making another person feel good in the unspectacular course of his daily comings and goings is, in my view, the very essence of leadership.
-- Irwin Federman

#Believe #Thinking #Views

Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first.
-- Irwin Federman

#Games #Leader #Risk

Those you have followed passionately, gladly, zealously have made you feel like somebody. It wasn't merely because they had the job or the power -- they somehow made you feel terrific to be around them.
-- Irwin Federman

#Jobs #Made #Feels

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.
-- Irwin Federman

#Self Esteem #Essence #Capacity

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.