"Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Communication Quotes #Judging Quotes #Done Quotes

“When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in public if you weren't sitting down. I had three people who actually perfected the art of sleeping while standing.”

Source : "Actual Excerpts from John Street's Class at Temple" by Tom Namako, Philadelphia Citypaper, February 27, 2008.
“We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.”
“Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.”
“In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.”
“Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.”
“See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someoneâ€™s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.”
“If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.”
“For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.”

Source : Mark O. Hatfield (1971). “Conflict and conscience”

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