#vice

Distinguish yourself [...] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#age

Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my letters an extra ten times that day. "Ten times the better I'll know them, then." I said. "How strange that you should punish me by ensuring I come out more educated than Roden, who has tried to obey you. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

#education

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#culture #education #politics #education

Desperate people are dangerous people. ↗

— Bob Ritter

#assessments #dangerousness #presidents #psychological-profile #secret-service

Self-consciousness kills communication. ↗

— Rick Steves

#communication #confidence #self-consciousness #speech #travel

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#communication #wisdom #communication

There is no amount of communication or work that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want. ↗

— Kevin Darné

#communication

I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#choices-and-consequences #communication

Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#definition #relationship-advice #communication

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. ↗

— Ptahhotep

#courageous #crafty #diplomacy #fighthing #heroic