Shaun White Quotes

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

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

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

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

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

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

Leaders alone can rarely make peace. They have to bring people along.

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

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

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.

I've got my own mind, and I'll talk about it, but I'm willing to listen. I'm very balanced like that. If you don't want a guy who's balanced, who wants to win, and can bring people together well... I don't know.

People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.