Deborah Tannen Quotes

Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.

Deborah Tannen

We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood—heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.

Deborah Tannen