"Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation."

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Source : David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

David Keirsey

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“Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion”
“If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.”
“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.”
“TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.”
“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.”
“To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.”
“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.”
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.”

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