Simone Elkeles Quotes

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

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

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

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

I'm not a person who likes to confront.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

I'd like to be more assertive when it comes to confrontation. I'm fine on the pitch, but off the pitch, I'm a bit of a softy.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it - that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans; that's terrifying for me.

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.