Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerf…

- John Heider

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

- John Heider

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

- John Heider

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

- John Heider

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

- John Heider

Silence is a great source of strength.

- John Heider

If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

- John Heider

Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sens…

- John Heider

To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my …

- John Heider