Quotes on Win Win

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

Two ( or more) people come together and they agree that they should be together for a common purpose and that purpose is to add value to one another. ENGAGEMENTS are partnerships that should ALWAYS be Win-Win.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

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

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.