Barack Obama Quotes

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

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

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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

Understanding is a two-way street.

We can calm down our argument a little so that we can learn what it is that we are actually arguing about.

Two men can talk on the phone and maybe not agree on everything but at least respect each other.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

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

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

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

The belief in the therapeutic and redemptive force of dialogue depends on the assumption … that, after all, no idea is worth fighting over to the death and that we can always reach a position of accommodation if only we will sit down and talk it out

There's always a way to talk.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

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.

Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.

If you are willing to listen and if you are willing to sit around the table, sometimes especially with the people who you think you disagree with the most, it is still really possible to get things done.

I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.

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

When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

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

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.