"It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented."

-- Susan Fiske

#Goal Quotes #Hierarchy Quotes #Typical Quotes

“In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."”
“God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”
“We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.”
“I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.”
“Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.”
“The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.”
“Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.”
“I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.”

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