Quotes About Conflict

identificar o comprender un problema no lo elimina automáticamente. No se lo puede detener ni evitar sólo porque por fin haya sido reconocido como conflicto. Aunque ese reconocimiento sea lo que hace posible su tratamiento, la cantidad de personas que siguen desarrollando adicciones de todo tipo va en aumento.

When things are said in anger, irritation or frustration, you can put a hole into someone just like you have put a hole into that fence.

Lightheartness of being and ancient pain can't stand the sight of each other.

Most of the problems that surface between human beings arise from a failure to see the other person's perspective.

Relate peacefully, as much as possible, with everyone. Even one enemy is an enemy too many. Pass through life gracefully, taking the high road when conflict shows up. Should someone do you wrong, let karma do the dirty work. And let a world-class life be your revenge.

Los únicos demonios en este mundo son los que corren por nuestros propios corazones. Es allí donde se tiene que librar la batalla».

Personal relationships start unraveling, business partnerships begin to fall apart and your credibility decreases as you become known as "a loose cannon." Effective

Under the best of circumstances, middle school is a sixth-circle-of-hell situation, sandwiched somewhere between flaming tombs and flesh-eating harpies. It's the kind of situation that doesn't need gasoline on the fire, especially when said gasoline comes in the form of your older brother murdering the older sister of the third-most popular girl in school.

The world was full of weapons, when you cared to look.

They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade knedliky . It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets.

The girl was troubled; the girl was trouble. As all girls were troubled, as all girls were trouble.

They'd had a fight again. – You'll have your work cut out for you, I said. One of their quiet ones. She laughed. Where they whispered their screams and roaring. She laughed at me. And she was always the first one to cry and he kept stabbing at her with his face and his words.

They were our friends because we hated them; it was good to have them around. I was cleaner than them, brainier than them. I was better than them.

It would be okay to laugh one minute, then someone would be bent over, holding his arm where Tom Jones had thumped him. I'd watch tears drop on the wooden floor and I'd love Tom Jones because they weren't my tears.

You can take him, right? he asks a couple minutes later. I go, Are you kidding? You can't just fight Blade, you have to fight his gang, too. You mean you couldn't take him and I was giving him lip?

The only common feature of the three successful Reformations was their rejection of papal authority; otherwise they were quite at odds.

About all that Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans and Anabaptists agreed upon was the divinity of Jesus and the wickedness of the pope.

Property is insecure. In this one phrase the whole history of Asia is contained.

Tanks could not solve what was essentially a political problem. If the revolution in Afghanistan could only be sustained with Soviet bayonets, that was a route down which the Soviet Union should not go.

At the very least, if you and the other side cannot reach first-order agreement, you can usually reach second-order agreement—that is, agree on where you disagree, so that you both know the issues in dispute, which are not always obvious.

To get what we want, we are compelled to negotiate.

Negotiation, Information Technology, and the Problem of the Faceless Other," in Leigh L. Thompson, editor, Negotiation Theory and Research (Psychology Press, 2006).

Negotiations are not likely to make much progress as long as one side believes that the fulfillment of their basic human needs is being threatened by the other.

Agreement is often based on disagreement. It is as absurd to think, for example, that you should always begin by reaching agreement on the facts as it is for a buyer of stock to try to convince the seller that the stock is likely to go up. If they did agree that the stock would go up, the seller would probably not sell. What makes a deal likely is that the buyer believes the price will go up and the seller believes it will go down.