"Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress."

-- Doc Childre

#Anger Quotes #Mean Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group
“Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.”

Source : "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.
“Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.”
“Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.”
“When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.”

Source : Ken Knabb (1997). “Public Secrets”
“I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.”
“In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous [than sculptures and pictures] because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.”
“We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.”

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