Quotes About Resolution

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.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Carole decided

Life had a way of working out. The lid-for-every-pot theory seemed to work, if you waited long enough and were patient.

though she were another person, a deus ex machina

we break up over this? I don't think

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with

Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery.

A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.

When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

So there is an issue—or a dualistic aspect of our desire for human perfection or at least progress—that begs for resolution. But I learned years ago that in this kind of no-win philosophical situation, there is probably a higher perspective that dissolves, rather than resolves, the dissonance. In other words, being versus doing may not be the issue.

Even if you've already decided on the next step you'll take to resolve a problem, your mind can't let go until and unless you park a reminder in a place it knows you will, without fail, look.

When is a problem a project? Always. When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in that undecided state.

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcome is;

Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision.

Triton has lost the use of the money while BankTrust sorts things out and

These were the moments in my life where clear choices could be made. Do it or don't do it. Often, the decision was difficult.

I don't believe in ghosts or magic." "I don't either, Mary. But I do know one thing." "What's that?" "That this guy is not going to get away.