"When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it."

Source : Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.127, Harvard University Press

Robert Kegan

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“Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.”

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“Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!”
“I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.”
“Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it”
“Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.”
“I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.”
“The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.”

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