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“The more we interpret noncompliance as rejection, the more likely our requests will be heard as demands, This leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy, for the more people hear demands, the less they enjoy being around us.”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
“Modern insan özel olanı daha doğal, daha özgür bir alan olarak görmeye, kamusal olanı ise zorunluluklar ve görevler alanı olarak tarif etmeye daha yatkın. Oysa Eski Yunanlılar için oikos, insanın kendini yeniden üretmesini sağlayan ev hayatının, çalışmanın, "ekonomi"nin alanıydı. Ev hayatı doğallık demekti, ama bu bir özgürlükten çok bir zorunluluk anlamına geliyordu. Özgürlüğün alanına girmek içinse oikos'un dışına, polis'in alanına girmek gerekiyordu. Nitekim polis özgür erkeklerin, oikos bu özgürlükten mahrum bırakılmış, zorunluluğun alanına kapatılmış köle, kadın ve çocukların bölgesiydi”
― Vitrinde Yaşamak: 1980'lerin Kültürel İklimi
― Vitrinde Yaşamak: 1980'lerin Kültürel İklimi
“The formation of bubbles isn't so much about people irrationally participating in long-term investing. They're about people somewhat rationally moving toward short-term trading to capture momentum that had been feeding on itself.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money
“Intellectual understanding of a problem blocks the kind of presence that empathy requires. When we are thinking about people's words and listening to how they connect to our theories, we are looking at people - we are not with them.”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
“Assuming that something is ugly will stay ugly is an easy forecast to make. And it's persuasive, because it doesn't require imagining the world changing.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money
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