Do you want to make friends? Be friendly. Forget yourself... You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -Dale Carnegie
Grow antenna, not horns. - James B. Angell
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. -Thomas Sowell
Knowledge, ability, experience are of little avail in reaching high success if courtesy be lacking. Courtesy is the one passport that will be accepted without question in every land, in every office, in every home, in every heart in the world. For nothing commends itself so well as kindness: and courtesy is kindness. -George D. Powers
Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.-Dr. Karl Menninger
There is a destiny that makes us brothers, none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. -Edwin Markham
Whatever genuine emotion that we express toward any other person boomerangs back on us with redoubled force. -Brian Tracy
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -Goethe
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -Booker T. Washington
Live each day as if it were your last. Better yet, as you come in contact with other humans throughout your day, treat each and every one of them as if that day were THEIR last! -Og Mandino More >
4 Feb 2007 @ 15:47
What no one seemed to notice ...
was the ever widening gap ...
between the government and the people ...
And it became always wider ...
the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway ...
Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about ...
and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated ...
by the machinations of the 'national enemies', without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us ...
Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted', that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures' ...
must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing ...
Each act ...
is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone...
you don't want to go out of your way to make trouble ...
And it is not just fear ...
that restrains you, it is also genuine uncertainty ...
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it ...
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed...
You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father ...
could never have imagined." More >
An introduction to the science and art of perception management.
The phrase "perception management" is filtering into common use as a synonym for "persuasion." Public relations firms now offer "perception management" as one of their services. Similarly, public officials who are being accused of shading the truth are now frequently charged with engaging in "perception management" when disseminating information to media or to the general public.
Although perception management operations are typically carried out within the international arena between governments, and between governments and citizens, use of perception management techniques have become part of mainstream information management systems in many ways that do not concern military campaigns or government relations with citizenry. Businesses may even contract with other businesses to conduct perception management for them, or they may conduct it in-house with their public relations staff.
Perception management is a term originated by the U. S. military. The U. S. Department of Defense (DOD) gives this definition:
Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator's objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations.
5 Feb 2007 @ 02:52
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