Margaret Heffernan Quotes

I've learned It 's better to address conflicts head on and then move on.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

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.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

The important lesson for the children was that they know if there is a problem, they can tell us, we can talk about it, and we can resolve it. That's what families do. You face things, and you deal with them, and you move on together.

One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

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.

You can just fight one man at a time.

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

In every conflict we make mistakes. The trick is to fix them.

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

I was a bouncer for, like, three months in Boston until everybody figured out that I should never be a bouncer. I'm so soft. I just have no aggression in me.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

Jonathan and I are outspoken. If there's something that's bothering us we just say it, deal with it, and move on.

If I have a problem with somebody, I go ahead and say what's on my mind.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don't think that's the most effective use of our time, and frankly, I don't think I have enough money to tip the waitress for that kind of clean-up. And look, here's lunch. Let's eat that instead of eachother.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.