Always make the other person feel important.
Interpretation
Acknowledge and value others to foster positive interactions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of making others feel valued and significant in our interactions with them. By recognizing and affirming the worth of those around us, we build stronger relationships and create a more supportive and empathetic environment.
In practice
In a team meeting, to encourage collaboration, you might say, 'I really value your insights on this project.'
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an βism becomes so involved in reaction against other βisms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
I never met a man that I didn't like.
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
There is, inside all our heads, the egoβs rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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