Clifford Cohen Quotes

When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared.
Clifford Cohen
Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.
Clifford Cohen
There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.
Clifford Cohen
Eating healthy is not so much about what you eat, but what you don’t eat.
Clifford Cohen
We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.
Clifford Cohen
Observing stupidity in others is a sure sign of stupidity in the observer.
Clifford Cohen
You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care.
Clifford Cohen
A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.
Clifford Cohen
Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.
Clifford Cohen
Recognize and beware of the snare.
Clifford Cohen
Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reasons understood and accepted by all? In politics, laws are passed to secretly serve hidden agendas, for without such agendas many lawmakers would never find the motivation to support anything at all.
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Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.
Clifford Cohen
Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing. Ensuring that both things are true is especially important in the matter of either making or receiving a proposal of marriage.
Clifford Cohen
Emotion is the timbre of thought.
Clifford Cohen