Randall Robinson Quotes

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

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!

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

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

It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.” “Blow me.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.

Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

I'm not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I'm up against.

I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and you act like it's my fault but it's not my fault for being quiet or your fault for being a know-it-all. It's not your problem or my problem; it's their problem. They're the demented ones, not us, so don't take it out on me, because the only thing that holds things together for me is having someone else on the Not Demented Team.

One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.