Quotes About Resolution

Sidestep their attack and deflect it against the problem.

Recast an attack on you as an attack on the problem.

what is the best advice one could give a husband and wife getting divorced who want to know how to reach a fair and mutually satisfactory agreement without ending up in a bitter fight?

Break the vicious cycle by refusing to react. Instead of pushing back, sidestep their attack and deflect it against the problem. As in the Oriental martial arts of judo and jujitsu, avoid pitting your strength against theirs directly; instead, use your skill to step aside and turn their strength to your ends. Rather than resisting their force, channel it into exploring interests, inventing options for mutual gain, and searching for independent standards.

Even apart from a shared interest in averting joint loss, there almost always exists the possibility of joint gain. This may take the form of developing a mutually advantageous relationship, or of satisfying the interests of each side with a creative solution.

Rather than resisting the other side's criticism, invite it.

We fought.' 'A duel?' 'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.

How long will you plague me, brother? How far must I go to bring it to an end between us?

All right. You wanted me," I stated, "and now you have me, heaven help you.

It is not a question of crime and punishment -- it is problem and solution.

I counter whatever doesn't work in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile

He saw too clearly that greater freedom could lead to greater disorder and, by a dangerous dialectic, back to a loss of freedom. Hamilton's lifelong task was to try to straddle and resolve this contradiction and to balance liberty and order. The

If we have done anything wrong," said Pierpont, "send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

By early 1873, he had crossed his own Rubicon and never looked back.

At this point, Gates decided to wipe out Biggar's influence forever.

by saying little, he underscored his position as honest broker and permitted the antagonists to vent their anger.

Hatred is so much easier than reconciliation; no sacrifices or compromises are required.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

if you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

The best fights are the ones you don't have

the open! So go for it! Jump on it! Just gobble it right up! "I don't know," he said. "We need to talk about it," she said. But there was no more talking to be done, not then, because the buzzer from the lobby started up an insistent squawk, like somebody was down there on the street leaning on the button. Jodie stood

Then Reacher breathed out and raised a placatory don't-shoot palm, and he half-stood, slow and calm, unthreatening, the complete opposite of sudden, and he kept himself half-turned away from the guys with the guns, and half-turned toward the group on the sofa, and he said, "Come on, Emily, let's get this done. They're going to nail you one way or the other. Might as well make it easy on yourself.

If you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

Zec back toward the living room. The kettle's whistle died away, like an air raid siren winding down. The house went quiet again. "It's over," Reacher said. "You lost." "It's never over," the Zec replied. Hoarse voice