Joe

“Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them.”
― Danielle Steel, The Duchess

“then i learned that society is broken, not me.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“Mehrabian’s second experiment was to have nine different words recorded in varying tones of voice. The words themselves had an association with either liking (‘ honey’, ‘dear’ and ‘thanks’); neutrality (‘ may’, ‘really’ and ‘oh’); or disliking (‘ don’t’ , ‘brute’ and ‘terrible’). It was found that the tone in which the words were said was a more reliable indicator of recognizing the emotion than the actual meaning of the words. These experiments led Mehrabian to construct an (in no way uncontroversial) formula: Total liking = 7% Verbal liking + 38% Vocal liking + 55% Facial liking 1 In other words, we make decisions as to whether someone likes us predominantly on the basis of their facial expression and the tone of their voice: what is actually said is accountable for only a small part of communicating liking.”
― Phil Beadle, Why are you shouting at us?: The Dos and Don'ts of Behaviour Management