Quotes on Negotiating

Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

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.

The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

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.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.