Jay Haley quotes

Jay Haley quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.”
-- Jay Haley

Source : Jay Haley (1969). “The power tactics of Jesus Christ, and other essays”

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“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”
“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”
“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
“As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!”
“If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.”
“You must not let your opponent know how you feel.”
“Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.”
“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”
“Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.”
“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”

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