Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Deborah Tannen
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  1. Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. - Jim Rohn

  2. If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked. - Gilles Deleuze

  3. She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night. - George R.r. Martin

  4. The mistakes of the world are warning message for you. - Amit Kalantri

  5. People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions. - Amit Kalantri

More Quotes By Deborah Tannen
  1. We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood–heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about...

  5. I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

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