"Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it……" — Peter Block
"Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance."
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30 Quotes by Peter Block
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If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and…
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Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.
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Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.
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Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
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To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery…
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Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a…
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If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on…
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Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.
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I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs…
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Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
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Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the…
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Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right…
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More Advice Quotes
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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The worst men often give the best advice.
— Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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