It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When people are uncomfortable - and many people are when they have to negotiate - they start rambling as a way to fill the vacuum of silence. Some of the strongest negotiators I know just sit back and listen. The less they engage, the more likely the other person is to slip up and offer information they otherwise would have kept guarded.
Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.
I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.