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1. "You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'" ~ David Keirsey

2. "If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you." ~ David Keirsey

3. "The abstract and the concrete side of operations are opposites, but you can't have one without the other, if, that is, you want get the job done well." ~ David Keirsey

4. "any of us, whatever our temperamental makeup, can be effective leaders, provided that we come to understand our own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of our followers, and provided that we show our appreciation whenever we note our followers contributing their intelligence to our mutual enterprise." ~ David Keirsey

5. "the root of the word 'art' means "to fit together," and Artisan artists even call their productions "works of art," all of which suggests that a thing must be useful to interest an Artisan, immediately useful, concretely useful, otherwise who needs it?" ~ David Keirsey

6. "Indeed, Artisan battle leaders are no different from Artisan painters, pilots, or point guards: they are always scanning for opportunities, always looking for the best angle of approach," ~ David Keirsey

7. "our brain is a sort of computer which has temperament for its hardware and character for its software." ~ David Keirsey

8. "We ascend, he said, from physical needs (food, clothing, shelter) to safety needs (security, protection, assurance), then on to social needs (love, friendship, belonging), and next to the need for self-esteem (valuing self, self-worth, pride)." ~ David Keirsey

9. "Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments." ~ David Keirsey

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