In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? Carl Rogers View this quote
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again. Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
When unresolved feelings from a past relationship come up in a new relationship, people tend to blame the new partner. John Gray
John Gray
When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily. Stephen Covey
Anytime you and I take our accused behaviors, emotions, and thoughts into isolation, we are cut off from the safe relationships that could help us deal with the problems. Henry Cloud
Henry Cloud
Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning. Carl Rogers
I’m not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I’ve been doing the best I can. Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner
Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the next job, a new relationship, more money, a coveted car, accolades, and accomplishments. Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Relationships are forever. They are eternal. Not just permanent in this lifetime. Once you establish a relationship, it is an eternal relationship. Esther Hicks
Esther Hicks