E. G. Marshall Quotes

Consistently ask yourself: 'Is what I'm doing right now working for me or working against me?

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true.

We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.

The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Habits are a function of your subconscious mind.

If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.

My vision is my best attribute. I can see everything.

There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.

Those who think govern those who labor.

Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.

Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

People do not hear our pain when they believe they are at fault.

Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.

If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt to tell you the truth.

We find what we are looking for.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

The medium is the message.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

How someone is responding to you may have nothing to do with you.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

A woman in love never takes advice.

May Knowledge reshape your lives so that your greater destiny may come into view

I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.