Logo
Quote by Deborah Tannen
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the others. -

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the others. – Deborah Tannen

Other quotes by 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. – Deborah Tannen

Category:
alone
Author
Deborah Tannen
Read Quote

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship. – Deborah Tannen

Category:
relationship
Author
Deborah Tannen
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. – Louisa May Alcott

Category:
power

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. – Ice Cube

Category:
power

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. – Charles Babbage

Category:
power

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we werent able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. – Joan Jett

Category:
power

Random Quotes

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Books

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Speech (freedom of)

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Category:
teacher

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

Category:
Medicine