Edwin H Friedman Quotes

#1. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

Edwin H. Friedman

#2. People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

Allen Iverson

#3. Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg

#4. The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

Edwin H. Friedman

#5. You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

Christopher Walken

#6. But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

Edwin H. Friedman

#7. When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

Ken Follett

#8. There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

Richard Louv

#9. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Edwin H. Friedman

#10. Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H. Friedman

#11. The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Edwin H. Friedman

#12. Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Virginia Woolf

#13. A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Edwin H. Friedman