"The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique."

-- Maia Szalavitz

#Technique Quotes #Outcomes Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.”
“Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.”
“There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
“For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.”
“You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.”
“And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.”
“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.”
“I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.”

Source : "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 142), 1990.

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