Quotes About Concession

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.

A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

Otra vez me vino a los labios una especie de disculpa. Ante las demostraciones de suficiencia absoluta casi siempre me rindo, anonadado.

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Whether a negotiation concerns a contract, a family quarrel, or a peace settlement among nations, people routinely engage in positional bargaining. Each side takes a position, argues for it, and makes concessions to reach a compromise.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

You know you're in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think 'A' get together and compromise on 'B.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

However, every time we agreed on a deal, the GP insisted on making yet another change in his favor. After we had agreed to some of these, it became apparent that they were endless. I terminated negotiations.

Too bad. Lesson: It doesn't pay to push the other party to their absolute limit. A small extra gain is generally not worth the substantial risk the deal will break up.

no lo vivirán como una cesión desde la debilidad, sino como una concesión desde la fortaleza, y quien se siente fuerte no necesita polemizar.

Anything for a quiet life.

He contended that if the leaders of the established civil rights organizations persisted, the social struggle would end in bloodshed because he was certain the white man would never concede full integration.

And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

Yet, there is another altogether tantalizing form of surrender. The act of giving in with a vengeance.

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [...]

The only way out of this was to figure out a compromise they could both live with. Maybe I could convince Miles and Savannah to forgo the public apology if I met them over coffee. Maybe I could convince Evie to stop crying foul. And hey! After that maybe I could spin straw into gold!

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.