Christie Hefner Quotes

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Gobbledygook! [The word was born.]

Terrorism is what the weak use to increase their bargaining power against the strong.

A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Those of us with power must learn to listen more and talk less; those without power must learn to talk more an listen less.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.

We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'.

Mahesh lays down most of the rules. Even when I was dating him for four years prior to our marriage, he didn't want our relationship to be out in the open.

It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.

Problematic' is one of these meaningless jargon words that people on the internet outrage circles throw at one another.

I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

When you can no longer elucidate the ideas, or when they are too damaging to openly acknowledge, all you can do is simply make threats, demand loyalty.

My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.

I don't want to come across the wrong way, which is hard when being funny or sarcastic at times, but I also want to make my posts more interesting.

Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.

Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.