"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person."

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Source : Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch (2011). “Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

Paul Watzlawick

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“Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.”
“I know Daniel Murphy is a really good hitter. He's definitely pulling the ball right now for power, although he did go left-central the other night against the Dodgers, I believe.”

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“It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.”

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“Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.”
“It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.”
“Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.”
“I want us all to get healthier, but also to live life to the fullest along the way. I want people to live their lives no matter what.”
“I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).”

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