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Letter "D" » Deborah Tannen Quotes
«Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball»
«The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
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«We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.»
«Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
«It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
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animosities, animosity, contention, contentions, discourse, General Public, headlined, headlines, taken over, tendency
«[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
«Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
«When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
«Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
«When you feel that the people you are dealing with day to day don't have manners, it gives you the feeling that the world is somehow coming apart. It makes you feel that everything is out of control.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
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