Big Books of 2026

Interventions Quotes

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Shannon L. Alder
“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.”
― Shannon L. Alder
tags: actions, advice, applied-lessons, applying, band-aids, better-than-prozac, blatant, brutal-truth, choices, cold-reality, consequences, downplaying, eggshells, faster-therapy, fighting-for-truth, freedom, gentleness, good-advice, group-therapy, half-truths, helping-one-anothers, honesty, humility, interventions, keeping-it-real, knowing, learned-lessons-from-others, learning, life-changing, life-coach, living-reality, openess, overcoming-ego, protective-family, protective-friends, realism, reality, right-as-rain, rules-work, say-it-like-it-is, self-respect, similar-paths, slapping-sense-into-loved-ones, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, sugar-coated, swallowing-pride, teachers, tipping-points, tough-love, truth, turning-points, understanding, values, waking-up-friends, white-path, wisdom, your-not-alone
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Israelmore Ayivor
“What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
tags: emotions, feel, feelings, food-for-thought, forget, help, helping-hand, helping-hands, impacts, influence, inspirations, intervene, interventions, israelmore-ayivor, leaders, leadership, love, love-and-care, make-a-difference, make-an-impact, motivations, remember
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Zbigniew Brzeziński
“Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski
tags: humanitarian-intervention, interventions, libyan-war, noninterventionism
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: begin, complete, dare, dare-to-win, do-it, end, extra, extra-mile, fight-for-it, finish, finish-it, go, imaginations, imagine, improve, improvement, improvements, inform, information, initiate, initiations, initiatives, innovate, innovation, innovations, inspiration, inspirations, inspire, intervene, intervention, interventions, invent, invention, inventions, involve, involvement, involvements, israelmore-ayivor, make-it-happen, save, saved, saved-for-work, till-all-is-done, work, works
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“We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.)”
― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
tags: 56, city, interventions, situationist
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Severine Autesserre
“Contrary to what most politicians and interveners preach, outside experts, national leaders, and top-down approaches are not the only means to reestablishing peace. Bottom-up initiatives can also make a difference, and ordinary people have the capacity to address some of the deeper roots of their country’s problems.”
― Severine Autesserre, The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
tags: congo, hope, international-relations, interventions, peace-and-conflict, peacebuilding, war
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“The most defensible answer to the question of why therapy works is, We don’t know.”
― Robyn Dawes, House of Cards : Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth
tags: clinical-psychology, interventions, quackery, science
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“I started weeping out loud as the scenes of my past replayed through my head. I’d always seen God’s interventions as freebies, as nice gestures from an all-powerful genie-like figure. I was finally beginning to see not only what it meant to have a clean slate, but also how much it cost Him to give me one.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
tags: clean-slate, freebies, interventions, scenes, weeping
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“The persistent cycle of foreign aid and intervention reveals a systemic flaw: the lack of genuine commitment to empowering nations to achieve true self-determination.”
― Jibril Mohamed Ahmed
tags: foriegn-aid, interventions, self-determination
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