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Septiembre 11, 2008

I am the decisive element.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I posses tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate of humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. It we treat people as they out to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Posted by sarita at Septiembre 11, 2008 1:34 AM