Quotes About Concession

Maybe I'm too crazy to be in a relationship," Henry said, which was his familiar response to Bobby's familiar discourse about the future. It felt like a grown-up thing to say, and like a difficult concession, and what he meant by it was I am trying as hard as I can and it's not enough for you or even Why can't my weak eccentricities be adorable to you, as yours are to me? But Bobby always heard it as a conversation stopper, childish and easy and glib.

I conceded on tomato ketchup and ice cream too, and there was triumph in Charlie's face and horror in his eyes. There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

For salaries less than $50,000, focus the employer on the dollar per hour amount. Simplify and minimize the concession you need.

CONCESSION: Concede your opponent's point in order to win what you want.

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

In my negotiation experience, I've long noticed that the cheapest concession you can make, the one that costs you the least and yields the most, is to give respect.

If you beat somebody at the thing they're best at, they're more likely to give way.

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

People do not comply because they do not accede. But when they know they will succeed, that is the time they will concede.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.

Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate.

Sometimes compromise tastes like caramel macchiato.

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.

The American daydream, what made Us great: make a concession, take a stand.

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

During bargaining talks, he always tried to maneuver the other side into saying yes as early and as often as possible.

Es perdonar al vencido el triunfo de la victoria.

It seemed that the marriage had reached the traditional truce, the point at which so many resign themselves to cutting both their losses and their hopes.

The Secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is know when to compromise. For instance. I will demand a puppy if I am forced to move to Fiji. But I will settle for a bunny.