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- Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all…
- Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What…
- Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
- They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and…
- Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
- For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
- Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
- Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we…
- Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
- There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a…
- Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
- Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character,…
- The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind…
- Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the…
- In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks,…
- In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle