Negotiation Quotes - Page 8

• I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular novel can be written. I want to listen to what it is telling me, trying to figure out what it wants to do as much as what I want to do with it. There's a negotiation that's constant and ongoing between me and the material I'm working with, because I'm trying to listen to it.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've taught the Bible all my life and I believe in the rights of Jews to have a place in the Holy Land, and so I have a natural affinity for that right. I believe that the right of Israel to have a place in the Holy Land can be honored by the two state solution, to abbreviate a long premise, and I think the only way to have peace is by following the basic road I've been following for the last 30 years, to try to bring peace to Israel through negotiation.

  Reza Aslan

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• We're always willing to look at ways NAFTA can work better. But it's a fine line between looking at ways to make it work better and actually starting to open the agreement. I think, if you actually opened the agreement, I think you would get into a negotiation that - that would never terminate.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.

  John Burroughs

  Russia, Nuclear Disarmament, Achievement

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• These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Demand

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

  David Brooks

  Hate, Scary, Want

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• In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, Direct Action, Campaigns

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Needs, Predator, Privilege

  "From New York to World’s Conflict Zones, UN Marks International Day of Peace". news.un.org. September 21, 2012.

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• Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, People, Denial

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• All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

  Michael Gurian

  Men, Tools, World

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

  George W. Bush

  People, Enemy, Trying

  Speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.

  Nora Ephron

  Play, People, Roles

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

  John Allen Fraser

  Children, War, Constitution

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

  Yoko Ono

  War, Thinking, People

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• First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

  Frank Sartor

  Running, Assessment, Land

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Airplane

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• It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.

  Howard Raiffa

  Senior, Lessons To Be Learned, Differences

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

  Howard Raiffa

  Thinking, Creative, Technique

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.360, Harvard University Press

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• World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

  Richard Holbrooke

  War, World, Inevitable

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• ... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Real, Mean

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• Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

  Starhawk

  Compassion, Punishment, Quality

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• Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, War, Fighting

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• It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Powerful, Struggle, Law

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress’ negotiations often come slow or not at all.

  Cedric Richmond

  Cutting, Water, Waiting

  "Season of Calamities Necessitates Compassion Aid: Don’t Require Offsets for Emergency Disaster Relief" by Cedric Richmond, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011.

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