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Difficult Conversations

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41 Quote(s) Found

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The most valuable thing any of us can do is find a way to say the things that can’t be said.

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A careful conversation is a failed conversation.

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You must extend to others what you want to receive. It begins with you.

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The most powerful communication technology available to any of us is eye contact.

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No matter how much sugar someone sprinkles throughout a loaded message, we read the underlying intent to do harm loud and clear.

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…expect nothing and be ready for anything.

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It is exceedingly difficult, almost impossible, to gain a firm footing in conversations filled with noise.

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Fierce conversations… require silence. In fact, the more emotionally loaded the subject, the more silence is required.

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Before any of us can hope to engage others in wonderfully fierce conversations, we must engage ourselves in a dialogue so real, so sweet, so fierce with silences that we can hear own heartbeat.

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All the conversations in the world cruise on a crest of silence.

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