Susan Minot Quotes

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

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

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

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

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

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!

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

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.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

The one piece of advice I would give to all girlfriends - or guy friends, too, I guess - is that if you're going to have a fight in a Baja Fresh parking lot, make sure one of you has an available pair of sunglasses because whoever is crying is going to want to wear them.

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

Normally when you meet a person you don't like, you might have words with them, but then you walk away. When you're filming a show, you can't walk away.

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT FROM PLAYING WITH PEOPLES' LIVES?! Shigure: Well, yes, now that you mention it, I do--BUT THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! Kyo: Man, your persuasion skills SUCK! Tohru: Um, welcome home. Dinner's- Kyo: NOT HUNGRY! Shigure: KYO! DON'T TAKE THIS OUT ON TOHRU! And come back to the entrance hall this instant and take those shoes off! Yuki: He's right, Shigure. You really do suck at persuasion.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.