Heider Quotes

#1. Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

John Heider

#2. If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

John Heider

#3. But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

Ted Rall

#4. The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

John Heider

#5. If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

Pablo Picasso

#6. Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

John Heider

#7. Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.

John Heider

#8. Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

John Heider

#9. Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

Will Rogers

#10. Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

John Heider

#11. One thing I learned in life, the only true friend you have in this world is your self.

Auliq Ice

#12. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was normal. So

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

John Heider

#14. Silence is a great source of strength.

John Heider

#15. I chuckled like Aldo Ray. If I had to endure his l'homme du monde act, he had to suffer my jaded alcoholic private eye.

James Crumley

#16. When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: This family talks to God.

Jonathan Kozol

#17. Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

John Heider

#18. The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Winston Churchill

#19. May we generally be happy, generally be witty, generally be honest, but above all always be interesting.

Daniel Handler

#20. I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.

Robert Atkins

#21. We are water. We are air. We grow, we bloom, we seed, we wilt, we die. There is a false separation between humanity and nature. Of

Nora Bateson

#22. We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.

Henry David Thoreau