Quotes About Concern

What makes a controlling parent so insidious is that the domination usually comes in the guise of concern.

If you are supposed to telephone the client, remember that your relationship starts when she answers the phone. Be professional and concerned but remember that the purpose of the call is not to do therapy over the telephone but to arrange a mutually convenient time when you can meet face-to-face. The client may be anxious; however, do not assume that you know what that anxiety is about. Also remember that asking for help is not an easy thing to do.

I didn't want to hurt you, she blurted. I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.

Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. Not Riley. Anything but that. After all this time, couldn't her reputation as a young, crazed teenaged stalker be put to rest?

You care more than you think and I can't help but wonder if that's the real problem.

Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.

She visited her father all the time. She'd stepped over piles of clutter, but it had never occurred to her that Pop was having serious problems. As time went by, his carelessness had increased, but Rosa hadn't thought anything of it.

Caitlin, I was born to worry about you.

I had to concede that there was some logic to McQuaid's concern. But it wasn't logic we were talking about, it was control. The emancipated China rose up in me, the China who hates to be told what to do by somebody who thinks he knows better. She was indignant, and she spoke for me.

But you're not worried anymore?" "Only in the way everyone worries when you realize someone else's well-being is necessary to your own.

Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

Dragon!" she said and moved ahead of her husband to greet her brother-in-law with a warm hug. "You look well. The leg is still not bothering you?" "It would not dare, after the terror you put it through.

From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.

Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary action. There's no strength in seeing all sides unless you can act where real measurable injustice exists. A lot of academic talk just immobilizes the oppressed and maintains oppressors in their positions of power.

I'm always assuming things are going to crash and I'm trying to figure out what could go wrong before it happens. It's helpful for work. But it's a terrible way to live your life.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

First. I give a damn. About everything you do

And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can't we talk about it? Why can't we ever talk about it?

He will be eighteen in January, but he looks younger than that, and vulnerable; yet older at the same time. Tired. His face is drawn. He has an urge to shield him, but how? There is no way. No way at all.

Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired. "She's fine," Blake growled. "Clearly, she--" "Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?" Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir.

This is none of your concern,' his uncle spat. 'I beg to differ,' Sebastian said quietly. 'A lady in distress is always my concern.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.