David Keirsey quotes
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“If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.”
-- David KeirseySource : David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
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“Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.”
-- David KeirseySource : David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
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“You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'”
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“Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.”
-- David KeirseySource : David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
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“Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct.”
-- David KeirseySource : David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
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“It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.”
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Source : "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.
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Source : "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.
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Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor
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Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986
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“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
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