Elisha Lawrence

“It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life. —FRED ROGERS”
― Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

“You don't set out to be rich and famous; you set out to be helpful.”
― Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

“With families, I stopped creating encyclopedias of data about all their issues and began to search instead for the member with the greatest capacity to be a leader as I have defined it. That person generally turned out to be the one who could express himself or herself with the least amount of blaming and the one who had the greatest capacity to take responsibility for his or her own emotional being and destiny. I began to coach the “leader” alone, letting the rest of the family drop out and stay home. I stopped trying to get people to “communicate” or find better ways of managing their issues. Instead, I began to concentrate on helping the leader to become better defined and to learn how to deal adroitly with the sabotage that almost invariably followed any success in this endeavor. Soon I found that the rest of the family was “in therapy” whether or not they came into my office.”
― Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

“Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that “arrogant,” “headstrong,” “narcissistic,” and “cold” will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.”
― Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix