Thomas Ian Nicholas Quotes

It ought not to be beyond the intelligence of even the most hidebound local politician to see the benefits of imaginative compromise.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

Negotiating is a little like jazz. You improvise on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you’re not always sure how to get there.

Negotiation is not trading. Negotiation is creating new and original solutions.

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Negotiators run the risk of achieving agreement and then having to take yes for an answer when they are emotionally accustomed to confrontation.

Diplomacy is a little bit like Jazz. It’s improvisation on a theme.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.