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

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

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relationship
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. – Arabic Proverb

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Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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