Quotes About Compromise

I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contemporary culture. Nobody gets to have it all...You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want' (175).

Must be quite nice, really. A foot on each side of the fence. Long as you don't mind what it's doing to your balls.

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere.

I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication.

I'm trying to move ahead, Cade, she whispered to the window. I didn't want to marry again. I didn't want another man taking away my choices. But it's happening all over again, and I don't like it. Can you understand that, Cade? Can you understand how I feel? His hands captured her shoulders and pulled her around. His face loomed over hers as he spoke. Give us time, Lily. We can make it work. Living without anyone else is an awful lonely business. He

Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera.

My wife and I made a pact a long time ago, and we've kept it no matter how angry we've grown with each other. When one yells, the other should listen—because when two people yell, there is no communication, just noise and bad vibrations.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Recordemos el viejo proverbio: "Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera".

que los puntos en que diferimos son pocos y los puntos en que convenimos son muchos, y que si tenemos la paciencia y la franqueza y el deseo necesario para ponernos de acuerdo, a ello llegaremos.

White is willing to meet them halfway

This is why no argument is ever won. You lose the argument, you lose. You win the argument, you lose.

Remember the old proverb: "By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

En otras palabras: no hay que discutir con el cliente o con el cónyuge o con el adversario. No le diga que se equivoca, no lo haga enojar; utilice un poco de tacto, de diplomacia.

I have listened to, engaged in, and watched the effect of thousands of arguments. As a result of all this, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes. Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.

Cuando hable con alguien, no empiece discutiendo las cosas en que hay divergencia entre los dos. Empiece destacando —y siga destacando— las cosas en que están de acuerdo. Siga acentuando —si es posible— que los dos tienden al mismo fin y que la única diferencia es de método y no de propósito. Haga que la otra persona diga "Sí, sí", desde el principio. Evite, si es posible, que diga "No".

PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don't want to change their minds. They can't be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.

Arguing with another person will rarely get you anywhere;

Opera tenor Jan Peerce, after he was married nearly fifty years, once said: "My wife and I made a pact a long time ago, and we've kept it no matter how angry we've grown with each other. When one yells, the other should listen – because when two people yell, there is no communication, just noise and bad vibrations." PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Ponte rápidamente de acuerdo con tu adversario".

La única forma de salir ganando en una discusión es evitándola.

Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.