Gena Showalter Quotes

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

Nothing I say is harsh. What I do say is the truth. If people have a problem with that, they need to realize that's on them. That's not on me.

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

I love insult, it's always honest.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.