Ian Dunbar Quotes

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

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.

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.

I don’t always agree with my wife, but we discuss the issue with love and respect. And then I say “yes.”

Interactions - whether personal or business, teacher-student, friend to friend, or family member - all call for balance, respect, and compassion.

How else are we going to get anywhere if we can't talk to each other?

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

There's not a problem we have that we can't talk out. We can't shout it out.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

A huge amount of negotiations and diplomacy has nothing to do with bartering or arguing but is just trying to get everyone [doing the negotiating] on the same page. It takes yours, days, even weeks sometimes.

If two people live together, one has to be patient, and typically, the other one is very annoying.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.