Charli XCX Quotes

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Moral teaching should always be used as a gift and not a cudgel.... It is important that we all be able to share our moral viewpoints without hurting each other. That is what is wrong with political discourse today.

Never contradict anybody.

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

I've spent a lifetime trying not to offend people - that's one thing that Mormons are really good at is smiling and shaking your hand and doing everything they can to not offend you. And I have gotten to this point in life where I don't want to live that way anymore.

I'm a very good listener, and I'm not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

In my experience, yelling at people that they are wrong and disgusting rarely wins the argument, nor changes point of view.

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.