Sentences with phrase «to hurt feelings»

Hurt feelings, bruised egos, and skinned knees are all part of the growth process, and critical to it.

«You're starting to hurt my feelings,» he joked after several rounds of questioning.

If a young woman entrepreneur hasn't found a market for her product outside of her sorority sisters, Whitehead says, it's crucial to be able to tell her that without worrying about hurting her feelings.

However, she says that not being straightforward with your employees because you don't want to hurt feelings or lower morale is the wrong way to form an effective team.

Great, I want you to know that you're not going to hurt my feelings.

If parents always «step in to solve misunderstandings and soothe hurt feelings,» kids won't learn «how to cope with and resolve conflicts without our intervention,» Lythcott - Haims cautions.

Disagreements and hurt feelings between co-founders can sink a company before it starts.

You have to be willing to make these difficult calls and to live with the consequences, the hurt feelings, and even the departures.

So is there any way out of this conundrum, a technique that allows for people's self - protective impulses but still helps them wholeheartedly admit errors and soothe hurt feelings?

You can't please everybody, but if you're so afraid of offending people or hurting their feelings that you apologize for every decision you make or opinion you have, you end up looking weak — and that doesn't do you or your business any good.

Anyway, the perception that the ad was racist is there, and that's enough: enough both to result in genuinely hurt feelings and to generate a serious PR problem.

Undergoing a moment of awkwardness to clear things up is much better than people holding on to hurt feelings and letting them stew.

I've decided to pursue other opportunities is better, but may still result in uncomfortable questions and hurt feelings.

So, «I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings during the meeting,» or «I'm sorry we made an error but you knew we were short - staffed» is not making up any ground.

I hope I didn't hurt his feelings.

Maybe hurt feelings, for instance, don't need to be a prime concern.

Be aware that even with the best intentions, someone will have hurt feelings over how your program gets implemented.

«Terms of judgment such as «wrong» and «worst» are likely to embarrass your employees and hurt their feelings.»

«Even in my own business ventures, sometimes I'm not as bossy as I should be because I care about people's feelings and I don't want to hurt their feelings.

The one side of this equation — the hurt felt by manufacturers — is fairly straightforward.

That probably has been Trump's experience in life: the intense desire of people to be with The Winner, or a billionaire, makes folks suppress their hurt feelings.

Screaming matches, barbed comments, nasty gossip, hurt feelings, toxic environments, shouty ALL CAPS emails, extended episodes of the silent treatment, or simple avoidance — these are some of the greatest hits of bad office conflict resolution.

Seven years later, all parties involved would eventually elaborate on their hurt feelings, while also revealing that there would never be a third movie.

The mindset that everyone should be a winner, that you should be rewarded just for showing up, and that going above and beyond to avoid hurt feelings might work in grammar school.

Wallowing in talk of other people's misdeeds or misfortunes may end up hurting their feelings if the gossip ever finds its way to them, but gossiping is guaranteed to make you look negative and spiteful every time.

Is your meeting going to end with hurt feelings?

If you have a meeting that goes south and feelings get hurt, end the meeting by acknowledging what is and isn't working and, most important, acknowledge the hurt feelings of members of your team before going on to next steps.

Having new stepbrothers and sisters, uncles and cousins come into the «work» family can be a lot of fun, but also can be riddled with new and unexpected challenges, turf wars, feelings of displacement and hurt feelings if not integrated and on - boarded right.

Mr. Trump himself, we are told, has a volcanic temper, a toddler's restraint and likes to be in bed by 6:30, scarfing down cheeseburgers while monitoring cable news on three televisions and calling his billionaire friends to complain when CNN hurts his feelings.

Money cures a lot of hurt feelings.

I'm sorry mentioning those items hurts your feelings.

I have been presented with business conspiracies in droves, including ones related to the ability to liquidate holdings (Benchmark allegedly wants to and Kalanick has blocked that always) and the impact of the deteriorating relationship between Kalanick and Benchmark's Bill Gurley (hurt feelings all around, apparently, to which I say boo hoo hoo).

But, that said, I am sorry if I hurt your feelings.

When he resorts to that, I honestly picture him as a 12 year old girl trying to hurt the feelings of a classmate.

I think that's hogwash, but it doesn't hurt my feelings and it certainly doesn «t help my dead relatives.

An oxymoron would be — the silent outburst hurt the feelings of many in the room.

I had a handle I liked to troll, but I hurt her feelings and she hasn't been around much lately.

Lithium organically grown and sunnily needed in order to relieve any sun of its hurting feelings is a no brainer among all the various sons of Godly fervors.

While everyone is debating over someones hurt feelings, the entire economy is in meltdown, soldiers are spilling blood on foreign soil in a war that no one can remember why we are there, we now have a government that is destroying practically everything this once great nation stood for.

The devil likes to get us all running around putting out little fires of offense, and hurt feelings, and negative opinions, so we don't have time or energy to deal with the strongholds at the root.

We hurt their feelings and probably interfere with their sleep patterns by calling them out on everything from poor spelling to having a faith grounded in no evidence (at least in its core claims).

Well golly gee whiz, austin, it would hurt my feelings ever so much to the point that I'd cry myself to sleep every night.

But Claire reminds me, now and then, that it is precisely events like these — well - intentioned educational initiatives that explicitly remove sex from the purview of family and religion — that promote the idea that sex can be engaged in without the consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, hurt feelings, and (by the way) children.

I have hurt the feelings of those I love, but that happens very seldom.

But when 1.6 Billion human beings say don't hurt our feelings by drawing cartoons (good or bad) of a person who is closer to our hearts than our own families and children, all the tolerance goes down the you know what.

It just hurt my feelings.

The West hurts my feelings and the rest of you should know it!

It risks confrontation, resentment, hurt feelings, and so on, so in a lot of interactions when someone is wrong the other person just politely nods his head in agreement and then proceeds to ignore everything the person said.

However, it is nearly a certainty that these morally righteous etiquette transgressions will cause embarrassment and hurt feelings, evils that manners seek to forestall.

No matter how hard you try to avoid it there will be misunderstandings and hurt feelings.