#conflict

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. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#attention #bringing #chance #child #competition

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth. ↗

— Mark Kurlansky

#dreams #history #vision #war #dreams

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conflict #confusion #debate #definition #disagreement

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know. ↗

— Linda Ronstadt

#christian #cloud #concert #conflict #enjoyment

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#conflict #constant #dressing #dressing room #football

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#conflict #creativity #ideas

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#calling #conflict #end #police #them

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#conflict #continual #england #had #roses

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts. ↗