A Quote by Clay Clark

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

Clay Clark

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Clay Clark
American - Businessman
Born: November 5, 1980

I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.

Lisa Kleypas

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

Wally Schirra

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Chuck Klosterman

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Steve Allen

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

Robin Sharma

Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

Alexander Lowen

I've long believed that if you understand how conversational styles work, you can make adjustments in conversations to get what you want in your relationships.

Deborah Tannen

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

Vijay Mallya

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

Jim Carrey

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

Walter Hill

Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

Douglas Coupland

I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.

Anthony Scaramucci

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

Jay Rockefeller

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Paul Orfalea

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

Noah Hawley

To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.

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