Sharice Davids Quotes

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. It's a negotiation tool.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

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.

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

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.

I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.