The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

- Edwin H Friedman

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

- Edwin H Friedman

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

- Edwin H Friedman

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

- Edwin H Friedman

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

- Edwin H Friedman

Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard.…

- Edwin H Friedman