Gregg Easterbrook Quotes

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

If you're offended, it's your problem.

You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

I don't like the blame game, though.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

You had better not be resolving against individual action or there will be no end to it. Tomorrow it will be me you censure; then you.

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

I'm not a person who likes to confront.