Negotiating Quotes - Page 6

• IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Ifs

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• Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to be having a difficult time negotiating Alexia's multiple layers of skirts and ruffles, which formed a particularly efficacious barrier in the tight confines of the hackney.

  Gail Carriger

  Missing, Ruffles, Hackney

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• At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Curves, Hands, Two

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• Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

  J.R. Ward

  Sleep, Fate, Fog

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.8, Penguin

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• The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians

  Boris Yeltsin

  Important, Tables, Kosovo

  "Serb's Promises Are Just a First Step, U.S. Says" by Steven Erlanger, www.nytimes.com. June 17, 1998.

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• When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.

  John T. Flynn

  Government, Dry Up, World

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.16, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

  Leigh Steinberg

  People, Intimidation, Intimidating

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• Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agreement, Complaining, Administration

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• Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Country, Class, Would Be

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• Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

  Chris Humphreys

  Powerful, Tools, Cost

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• It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Long, More Money, Contracts

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• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

  Virginia Satir

  Easy, Stage, Adolescence

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

  William Safire

  Funny, War, Humorous

  "ESSAY; Reading Saddam's Mind" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1990.

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• Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Trust, Real, Emotional

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• I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

  Zainab Salbi

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Home, Winning, Play

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• Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

  Bill Richardson

  Time, Army, Korea

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• The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

  Ari Fleischer

  President, Answers, Delicate

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2003.

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• Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

  Bill Plympton

  Cop, Antichrist

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  Faith Prince

  Dad, Personality, Age

  "BRIDGING TV & THEATRE: Faith Prince & DROP DEAD DIVA - Plus Laurents, Robbins, MAME, GYPSY & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. August 14, 2011.

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• Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know.

  David Letterman

  Mother, Law, People

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

  Helen Clark

  Country, Position, Strongest

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• I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Persuading, Superpower, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

  Ehud Barak

  Real, War, Believe

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