Kimberly’s Reviews > Speak Your Mind: Evaluating and Unleashing Your Communication Strengths > Status Update

'What is the issue? Why is this an issue? How is this issue resolved?'

'What am I trying to say here, and am I saying it?'

'An old country preacher used to say, "I tell 'em what I'm gonna tell 'em. Then I tell 'em. Then I tell 'em what I told 'em."'

'"Bald headed men don't sell hair-restoration oil."'

'The Greek word for sarcasm, sarkazein, means "to tear flesh like dogs."'

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'Certain chemicals in a woman cause her to stew for a twelve-hour period after a conflict. -- Whereas a man's chemical makeup differs, and he can stop stewing over the specifics after one hour. This is why when a couple has a fight in the morning, that evening she needs to talk about what happened nine hours earlier, whereas he replies, "What are you talking about?"'

'Other people don't cause us to be the way we are; they reveal our predisposition to express disgust and disparagement.'

'The sun doesn't cause the clay to harden and butter to melt; the sun reveals the inner properties of each. When things heat up, we reveal our true colors.'

Did their carelessness *cause* him to be angry and disrespectful, or *reveal* him to be an angry and disrespectful person?

'How ironic that we let our integrity cause us to keep secret another person's lack of integrity! They use our virture to hide their vices. They expect us to be true to our word while they are untrue to theirs.'