Favorite quotes
Writing by Leila Summa on Wednesday, 9 of January , 2008 at 11:21 am
“There are moments when you have got to change the second half of your sentence based on the feedback you got to the first half of your sentence”. Robert Dilts
“Remember, we may live in a new world, but the old rules still apply. Powerful communications has always been about getting people to pay attention and take action. The engage and encourage strategy is just another means of achieving the same objective” Fard Johnmar
„Wer von Anfang an genau weiß, wohin sein Weg führt,
wird es nie weit bringen.“ (Napoléon Bonaparte, 1769-1821)
Konfuzius:
“Der Mensch hat dreierlei Wege klug zu handeln: erstens durch nachdenken, das ist der edelste, zweitens durch nachahmen, das ist der leichteste, und drittens durch Erfahrung, das ist der bitterste.”
” Fordere viel von dir selbstund erwarte wenig von anderen. So bleibt dir so mancher Ärger erspart.”
Niklas Luhman: “Die Steigerung der Wahrscheinlichkeit des Unwahrscheinlichen - das ist die Formel, die Gesellschaftstheorie, Evolutionstheorie und Theorie der Kommunikationswissenschaften verbindet.” - Liebe als Passion, Vorwort
“Hohe Kontingenz von Ereignissen bedeutet, dass alles, was ist, auch anders sein könnte.” - zitiert in “Soziologische Theorie” von Richard Münch, 2004, S. 183, books.google.com
“Die Kommunikation hat keinen eigenen Zweck, keine immanente Entelechie. Sie geschieht, oder geschieht nicht. Das ist alles, was man dazu sagen kann.” - Aufsätze und Reden, 2001, S.102
“Kommunikation ist unwahrscheinlich. Sie ist unwahrscheinlich, obwohl wir sie jeden Tag erleben, praktizieren und ohne sie nicht leben würden.” - Aufsätze und Reden, 2001, Herausgegeben von Oliver Jahraus. Stuttgart, S.78
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
“If you know when to Stop, you’ll never give your heart to the journey”
Paul Levy
“What makes a human being unconquerable is our capacity to be vunerable.”
(Via http://www.cats3000.org/People/PaulLevy.htm)
“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.”
-Boris Marshalov
“When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.”
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.”
-Joe Namath
“Dance like there’s nobody watching
Love like you’ll never get hurt
Sing like there’s nobody listening
Live like it’s heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard.”
-William W. Purkey
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”
-Peter Drucker
«We should accept certain impressions and not dwell on others», Kabir Edmund Helminski
«What a pleasure it is to open up a paronamic sense of presense», Kabir Edmund Helminski
«Lasst uns das Leben genießen, solange wir es nicht begreifen.», Kurt Tucholsky
«Solo chi ha il caos dentro di se, puo’ generare una stella che danzi», Nietzsche
«The gap between what you know and what you think you know is always dangerously wide.», Nassim Talib
«Distance between opinions is remarkably narrower than the distance between the average opinion and the truth» Nassim Talib
“I decide i can’t do something, for example, I won’t try, and not doing it only reinforces my self-doubts. “(….Organizational Behavior, p.37)
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