People who bite the
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. Eric Hoffer
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. Eric Hoffer
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. Epictetus
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This … Read more
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike. Earl Warren
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced….Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support….When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise … Read more
Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust. Francesca Marciano
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Micromanaging erodes people’s confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence. Diane Dreher
The question Is this an act of self-love or is it an act of self-sabotage? is one you must consistently ask yourself if you are committed to having all that you want and all that you deserve. When you love yourself you feel worthy and deserving of claiming the gifts of this world. Self-love gives … Read more
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves. David Whyte