CONFRONTATION QUOTES

quotations about confrontation

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Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

BARBARA DELINSKY

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The more one confronts everything, the more interesting and fruitful becomes the path to individution.

ADOLF GUGGENBHUHL

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Confrontation is like fire or water. Properly used, it can save your life. It can also destroy.

JOHN HOOVER & ROGER P. DISILVESTRO

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When the idea of compromise--i.e., that a relationship is important enough to warrant seeking to avoid confrontation, even if some concession is necessary--is weak, the likelihood of confrontation is increased.

LAWRENCE E. HARRISON

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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

H. JACKSON BROWN

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There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

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Failure to confront, when confrontation is needed, permits the continuation of self-defeating or unreasonable behavior and inadvertently implies support for such behavior.

A.W. TAMMINEN & M.H. SMABY

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Now, I have to admit, confrontation isn't always something that I enjoy. But I have learned over the years to say what has to be said and face what has to be faced. Many choose to live in a perpetual state of denial rather than do the hard work that is needed to confront issues, weaknesses, and inconsistencies in themselves and others.

T.D. JAKES

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Confrontation isn't my bag. It's something I learned from the Old Man. Except for the blaring music, quiet reigned in my boyhood home, right up to the point where Dad walked into the kitchen one afternoon towards the end of my high school years and announced that my mother had left him. I can't say I blamed her, though maybe I did. He didn't seem the least bit upset. After that, it was eve quieter.

D. LUFKIN

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I guess we've been avoiding total honesty
But we can't leave confrontation on the shelf
Though I know that love brought us together
In finding one another I almost lost myself.

PETER, PAUL & MARY

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You can't change what you refuse to confront.

ANONYMOUS

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Confrontation is not a verbal hit-and-run; rather, it is used constructively to bring about change.

DONALD COLLINS

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If you are fearful of confronting others, try approaching instead. What's the difference? When you confront, there is usually some expectation that conflict will follow. Approaching is not like this. Approaching is loving and calm, spares others from feeling judged, shares information in a gentle way, and invites conversation.

JASON B. FISCHER

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Stand up, speak out, strike back
They don't know what they started
Confrontation

OTEP

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All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives.

TONY BLAUER

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Metaphorically speaking, the art of good confrontation is to help the client to swallow "bad medicine" voluntarily, so that they can incorporate it into their bodily system and digest it.

KATHRYN & DAVID GELDARD

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Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.

DALE PARTRIDGE

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Is it because the confrontation never quite takes place that I take such lasting pleasure in it?

JACQUES DERRIDA

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Rehearse what you are going to say to the person when you confront them. Go through your key points, bearing in mind that the aim is to outline the situation from your perspective, giving concrete examples of recent incidents. Be absolutely clear about what you want. Envisage how you might resolve the conflict in a way that is agreeable to both sides.

MICHAEL WEST

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Confrontation is a loaded word; it carries such negative connotations of 'being told off', of angry conflicts and so on that a number of people, therapists included, shrink inside when even the word is mentioned. In spite of all of this, sensitive and well-timed confrontation remains a potent therapeutic method.

MARK WIDDOWSON

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