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Quotes from Karl Albrecht

Change your language and you change your thoughts.
~ Karl Albrecht
Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the HMOs only give us so much time diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)
~ Karl Albrecht
The best captain does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without the battle....
~ Karl Albrecht
The biggest obstacle to learning something new is the belief that you already know it.
~ Karl Albrecht
The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
~ Karl Albrecht
A standard feature of situation comedy has some form of the main character talking trash to someone about a husband, wife, girl friend, boy friend, boss, or acquaintance, only to see the listener's expression change in a telling way. She's/He's standing right behind me, right? is often the pained question of the speaker. (Loud canned laughter follows.)
~ Karl Albrecht
BUILDING THE SKILLS OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Things you can do to increase your skills in the dimension of Situational Awareness include: • Sit in an airport, at a mall, or some other public place and watch people go by. Try to figure out the kinds of relationships you see between couples, families, and groups. How do they signal their relationships and their affiliation? Do they convey affection and affirmation, or do they seem cold or even antagonistic?
~ Karl Albrecht
Un niño escribió: El cuerpo humano está formado por el cerébreo, el bórax y la cavidad abominable. El cerébreo contiene el cerebro. El bórax contiene los pulmones, el hígado y otros seres vivos. La cavidad abominable contiene los intestinos, que son dos: el gordo y el flaco.1 Es
~ Karl Albrecht
The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.
~ Karl Albrecht
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.
~ Karl Albrecht
Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.
~ Karl Albrecht
There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
~ Karl Albrecht