Elisabeth Hasselbeck Quotes

Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.

When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

Father was bold, and Mother was cautious. They never shouted at each other but argued constantly about strategy, and they taught me very early that before taking big risks, one must carefully figure the odds.

I must make decisions every five minutes and give the impression of being sure of myself! Sincerely, this is the cause of my verbal violence.