according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.
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Related Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancest... PHYLLIS GEORGE The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deepl... NORBET PLATT Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, ou... BRENé BROWN Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. E. T. BELL Greater customer diversity makes Dana a stronger company, which makes us a better supplier to all of... CHUCK HARTLAGE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real... JONATHAN HAIDT Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. IBA EZRA The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in... ADENA FRIEDMAN A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refu... H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourse... RABINDRANATH TAGORE Leon is connected to our community in ways that very few elected officials are. He will leave a sens... WILLIAM JONES But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk. SUNDAY ADELAJA Everyone had a place. Everyone fit. Everyone belonged. Everyone but Anna Mae. KATHLEEN FULLER It's important for students to feel that they're in a safe, secure environment. This helps us make s... ANDREW BROOKS As we examine the stars, they often feel too far out of reach, yet we aren’t able to deny the sens... MISHI MCCOY Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us ... KATHY FRESTON Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. MAYA ANGELOU We just want to make sure that our students are safe and that we don't risk anything. A couple of da... BRAD ALLISON Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it. J. KENNER A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents tha... ROWAN WILLIAMS Follow your dreams” is an inspirational mainstay: probably the most commonly expressed inspiration... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which ... ALBERT PIKE Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its... E. E. JENKINS Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the... PAUL WILLIAMS I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance... QUENTIN BLAKE Our sense of well-being depends to some extent on others regarding us as a You; our yearning for con... DANIEL GOLEMAN Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-c... SOURCE UNKNOWN Our preliminary reports make us believe that it makes more sense to demolish at this time. LORI MOON Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tel... RONALD REAGAN Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlar... RALPH WALDO EMERSON It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime... It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime... SOURCE UNKNOWN It's a theme that encourages us to deliberately seek experiences and conversations that extend our u... LARRY VANDERHOEF We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deep... STASI ELDREDGE Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the worl... HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. ELON MUSK A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented wi... ANN PLATO While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which... SIMON ZINGERMAN But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life giv... MARCEL PROUST Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us towar... JAMES WOOD Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of l... JULIANNE DAVIDOW But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, / Not by works of right... BIBLE Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesu... DAN BROWN LIFE REWARDS US ACCORDING TO OUR ACTIONS. JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. Do you not understand?” he whispered. “I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child.... KRISTEN CALLIHAN God gives each of us according to the quality of our hearts. VIKRANT PARSAI What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending...we gotta let ourselves be. CHRISTINA AGUILERA Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b... THE TRUTH I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho... BILLY BRAGG We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small... NINA LACOUR As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psyc... ADAM GRANT Coach is very intense and he wants us to do our best off the court and on the court. He expects so m... KRYSTLE HORTON Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distan... MARY ASTELL We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint... ROBERT FROST For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our f... H. L. MENCKEN For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our f... H. L. MENCKEN Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experienc... BOB HOFFMAN It just gives us a sense and makes us aware... this return is going to have something different in i... ERIC ERICKSON The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose... ROBERT DALE OWEN What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secu... AMORY LOVINS Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each... POPE FRANCIS All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is... JEFF SESSIONS Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realiz... HENRY FORD Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to reali... HENRY FORD Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize th... HENRY FORD We are playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he's the... KYLE KORVER The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum phys... PAUL BLOOM The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And ... HELEN OYEYEMI It's a very eclectic, engaging show, and it encourages us to take a look at our lives, MICHAEL ELLISON Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety make... NOREENA HERTZ Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that... MARK PAGEL It's pathos. Pathos makes us feel sympathy, horror. It appeals to our emotions. It can make us cry, ... JOHN IORIO The reason why some of us love when it rain is because it fills in the faults of our broken hearts a... VANSHICCA DHYANI Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we... JULIO CORTáZAR This relocation is very much in line with our plans for deliberate growth and expansion, and makes p... JAMES SCHAEFFER When we are doing that which makes our heart sing, we feel upbeat & energised about our lives. We be... SAMANTHA FARRUGIA It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of... HAROLD W. DODDS It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur... HAROLD W. DODDS It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur ... HAROLD W. DODDS Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard... HENRY FORD What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to bel... MATT TAIBBI By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled ... JOHN POWELL It is the ability to choose which makes us human. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppressio... ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN Our goal is to make the Pepsi-Cola system a lot more competitive and a lot more responsive to our cu... ROGER ENRICO We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that ... ABHIJIT NASKAR Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled. MUNIA KHAN That which does not kill us makes us stronger. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group ... ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by ... BRENé BROWN Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evo... EVAN DAVIS Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourse... VICTOR HUGO The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be defi... PARKER J. PALMER
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MARGARET MEAD Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,... MARGARET ATWOOD Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. MARGARET MEAD You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. MARGARET THATCHER I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. MARGARET MEAD Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ... MARGARET MEAD Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. MARGARET MEAD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ... MARGARET MEAD We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamu... MARGARET MEAD Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ... MARGARET WEIS If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. MARGARET THATCHER The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t... MARGARET THATCHER It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin... MARGARET THATCHER In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. MARGARET THATCHER Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla... MARGARET MITCHELL Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi... MARGARET THATCHER Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ... MARGARET MITCHELL Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ... MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. MARGARET ATWOOD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i... MARGARET MEAD Longed for him. Got him. Shit. MARGARET ATWOOD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. MARGARET MEAD If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ... MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve... MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an... MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER If i thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac... MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. MARGARET MITCHELL Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic... MARGARET ATWOOD