“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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Quoted in "Feeling Rejected? Join Updike, Mailer, Oates..." by Barbara Bauer and Robert F. Moss, New York Times (21 July 1985), section 7, page 1, column 1
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Source: 1970s-1980s, The Limits Of Organization (1974), Chapter 1, Rationality: Individual And Social, p. 25
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“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.”
As quoted in Dictionary of American maxims (1955) edited by David George Plotkin.