Responsibility is the product of definite social arrangements.
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power.
A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.
I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.
Many employer-employee relationships are built on a lie that starts from the first interaction: neither party automatically conceives of the relationship as something that will last a lifetime, but both interact as if it is. This lie of omission bases the relationship on distrust.
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
Too many people say they want someone extraordinary in their lives but they aren't extraordinary themselves.
