Quotes About Compromise

I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best."18

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

When the going gets tough in a negotiation, your biggest challenge will be your ability to nurture your adversary in spite of everything else going on.

We greatly enhance our opportunity for a successful deal by putting the adversary first in our mission and purpose. You make your killing—or just a solid profit—only by entering heart and soul into your adversary's world, business, needs, requirements, hopes, fears, and plans.

the price that will be paid in any negotiation—is directly related to the clarity of the vision of pain?

The only agenda that is valid for purposes of negotiation is the one that has been negotiated with the adversary.

win-win is hopelessly misguided as a basis for good negotiating, in business or in your personal life or anywhere else.

In any negotiation, where do we want to spend as much time as possible? In the adversary's world.

The wise negotiator knows that only one person in a negotiation can feel okay, and that person is the adversary.

Each story weaves together different viewpoints that-in the words of the sages-oppose one another yet are both true. These themes are the underpinnings of stories, the very motives that drive conflict, compromise, and eventual climax.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, And neither party loser." (William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two, Act IV, Scene 2, from the journals of May Dodd)

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

Hegelian dialectic, or problem, reaction, solution. This method basically involves fabricating or intensify a problem, offering a draconian solution, then settling for a "compromise" that nevertheless furthers the intended goal.

There's nothing worse than two people who have on the same position talking to each other about the position.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

If you have a naturally dominant personality, you must be careful. If your spouse feels as though he or she is being pressured to see and do things your way, they aren't going to be totally open and honest.

They were not always in accord, but over time they developed such good communication that even their most bitter disagreements became part of their axiomatic assumption of mutual long-term ongoing love and life together.

A worldly wise and somewhat overbearing Lucy asks the good-hearted and somewhat naive Charlie Brown, 'Charlie, what would you rather do, be captain of the baseball team or marry the cute redheaded girl?' And Charlie replies innocently, 'Why can't I do both?' to which Lucy responds, 'It's the real world, Charlie Brown.' "60

I've heard of men who were permanently stymied in their careers because their wives flatly refused to leave their home towns. That's not right. A man's job has to come first and women have to draw on their natural adaptability.

as he'd grumbled, punctuation counted. And when he was finished, although she wasn't entirely prepared to give in, she hadn't been able to deny that he had a point.

If he asks you for six goats in exchange for me, you don't have to actually buy real goats. He'd probably take kegs instead.

Don't want you wearing shit that you wore for Gary," Horse replied, draping an arm around my neck, pulling me into his body. He leaned over and spoke directly in my ear, voice husky. "I don't give a damn if you never wear panties again, but I know women are weird about that. Here's the compromise. I'm gonna buy you new shit, but only shit I like. You're gonna wear it until I pull it off to fuck you. Everyone wins.