Chester Bennington Quotes

I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.

What television gets to do, and there's a reason why 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' works as well as it does, is that it deals with the relationships. It deals with the very small, interpersonal ways that people both love and hate each other.

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.

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

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

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

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.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.

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

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

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

I'm not mean, just aggressive.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.

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

I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

I can fight, but that's the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I'm not very good.

Novice leaders often respond dramatically to provocations.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.