"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."

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"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."

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"I write, but I also act."

"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which."

"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's."

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"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."