Joan Jett Quotes

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie

If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

We can argue and we can disagree, but we don’t need to poke our fingers in each other’s eyes in order to get our points across.

I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.

Two men can talk on the phone and maybe not agree on everything but at least respect each other.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

Whatever you think I am, I agree. Can we move on to other questions.

I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus but you also have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.

Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.

Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.

We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

I would never say don't have an argument.

I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead. Alanna shook her head. "No, I don't believe you have. As far as I could tell, you never thought I was right.

[Donald] Trump is obsessed with name calling.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.