"If you can speak about what you..." - Quote by Amy Poehler
If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.
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“When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.”
“Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.”
“To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.”
More on Communication
“It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.”
“Eyes...They speak all languages.”
“Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.”
More on Respect
“The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.”
“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”
“Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.”