"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship."
― Deborah Tannen
Topic(s):
Relationship
― Deborah Tannen
More From Deborah Tannen
- "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."
- "Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women."
- "Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other’s."
More In Relationship
- "My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man."― Michael Haneke
- "It’s as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it."― Jim Hodges
- "My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men."― Denene Millner