“Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."” PeopleIfsMayHelpingRealizingLevelsOughtMessagesCapableNegativeTreatsExpectedAbsorbingTrue Potential Author:Daniel J. Siegel
“Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.” IfsThreeFailingMessagesExpectationsExpectedRight ThingInferenceLearning From Failure Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.” IfsNeedsShouldLawMessagesExpected Author:Tim Cook
“Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.” PeopleWellsKindEnoughTurnsClassMiddleNeededMessagesExpectedMiddle ClassPenetrateStrengthening Author:Keith Ellison
“The campaign is over. The people have spoken. And this man [Donald Trump] busted through a blue wall that nobody expected. He won states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania, which should have been Hillary Clinton's the whole time. And they were his because of the message, because of the way he's a master communicator and a master connecter.” PeopleMenWayShouldHas BeensStatesWholeMastersWallTrumpMessagesShould HaveBlueClintonExpectedCampaignsShould Have BeenMichiganPennsylvaniaWisconsinCommunicatorsBusted Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.” SpeakChanceMessagesExpectedMuteUnbearable Lightness Of BeingUnbearable Lightness Author:Milan Kundera