Reflections

Quotations

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- On Feeling a Victim or Being an Active Player
- On “Smoke Screens”
- On Secrecy and Indiscretion

On Feeling a Victim or Being an Active Player

For the active player, being efficient is more important than being right. And being efficient means accomplishing what one is seeking. He believes that there are as many truths as there are people, and when he is in a conversation where the other person thinks differently, he ponders whether anything of what the other one says may be of use to his life. Consequently, he turns differences into opportunities for growth and deeper relationships, contributes to the creation of a consensus-prone environment, and cooperates instead of antagonizing. The active player lives the "must-be" as a "want-to-be". Rather than refusing to make a choice, to imitate the imposed model as much as possible, the active player reinvents himself, thinking that he can be different. He becomes in touch with his values and is vividly conscious of what is important, and that becomes his aim in life.

Daniel Sidelski

On “Smoke Screens”

To systematically misinform it is necessary to be very well informed. A “smoke screen” is something that is placed in front of me so that I cannot see further ahead. When they force me to “look the other way”, it means that there is one way they don’t want me to look.

Horacio Ghilini

On Secrecy and Indiscretion

Both friendship and love are built with time and dedication; they are nourished with secrets and broken up with indiscretions.

Enrique Rojas