Book Titles

Fierce Conversations
Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

By Susan Scott

Year Published: 2004
ISBN-13: 978-0670031245
Categories: Success

127 Quotes Found

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Fierce Conversations:

Anyone can play the notes. The magic is in the intervals, in the phrasing. That’s where silence comes in.

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Fierce Conversations:

Clamming up and refusing to talk… reflects a decision to protect yourself at all costs…

231

Fierce Conversations:

Silence allows quieter individuals the opportunity to speak. Learning is provoked for everyone.

234

Fierce Conversations:

Half the battle is identifying and resolving the real issues, as opposed to dwelling on symptoms illustrated with long stories.

234

Fierce Conversations:

What is silence trying to teach us? It is teaching us how to feel. Silence encourages us to explore a more difficult peace.

235

Fierce Conversations:

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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Fierce Conversations:

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

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