Zitat des Tages über Unaufgefordert / Unsolicited:
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I'm trying to be more mindful of that.
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.
You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.