Lucy Dacus Quotes

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

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

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

I think that's the most important part of doing this job, is learning different personality types. I mean, it's kind of like sociology or psychology in a sense. With that, and with every project I do, I think I'm able to pull something away that further makes me understand humanity in a way I didn't before.

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

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.