Michael Stipe Quotes

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I love collaborating with people.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.