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People Have A Way Of Becoming What You Encourage Them To Be, Not What You Nag Them To Be.
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People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not
what you nag them to be.
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It's not what you tell people, it's what you show them.
What you will be you are becoming today.
In briefings to busy people, summarize at the beginning what you're going to tell them, then tell them, then summarize at the end what you have told them.
-- Charles Wolf, Jr....
If you collect the chronically stupefied and encourage them toward collective bewilderment, and then ask them to formulate a statement, you have the basic elements of a very productive committee.
I figure that the best way to figure what the IRS will figure is to get them to figure what you are figuring that they will figure that you are not really figuring what you want them to figure that you figure.
If you figure all of this out sufficiently, you have got to figure that they can't figure you out in the first place....
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capcable of being.
-- Johann W. von Goethe...
People seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for.
Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.
There are two ways of teaching people: You can teach them how to think, or you can teach them what to think.
Socrates taught people how to think, Jesus taught people what to think....