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“The reasons why a counterpart will not make an agreement with you are often more powerful than why they will make a deal, so…

— Chris Voss

“The business of repatriating emotions emerges as one of the most delicate and necessary tasks of love. To accept the risks of transference is…

— Alain de Botton

“focus on speaking your truth rather than changing other people; stay in touch with your experience, especially the deeper layers; establish the facts; take…

— Rick Hanson

“As long as someone gets hurt in the slightest, on your account; its effect will fall upon you. So beware. If the other person…

— Dada Bhagwan

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like…

— David Viscott

“Partners overestimate their own contributions. This is known as the responsibility bias: exaggerating our own contributions relative to others’ inputs. It’s a mistake to…

— Adam M. Grant

“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to fellow human…

— Gene Kim

“The number one thing I would tell you is this. You can’t fix people. You can’t change people. So the trick, if there is…

— Kerry Anne King

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical…

— John Dewey

“Those mitigating circumstances could just as well be mentioned if the thinker thought it worth the trouble. From the standpoint of human relations it…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

— Zadie Smith