"We need to tell people not to be……" — Peter Block
"We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday."
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30 Quotes by Peter Block
Peter Block has 30 quotes on this site.
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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 Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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