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Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.


Thomas Szasz


#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.


Iain Glen


#class #even #face #her #i

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.


David Heyman


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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.


Paul Theroux


#being #gain #modest #never #reputation

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".


Ron Suskind


#education

A great man is always willing to be little.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#greatness #humbleness #humility #modesty #size

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.


Confucius


#exceeds #his #man #modest #speech

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.


Confucius


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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.


Confucius


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