Henry Rollins Quotes

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

You only get to know someone after a huge exchange of blows.

I like to fight where people respect me.

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

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.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

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

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

We can argue and we can disagree, but we don’t need to poke our fingers in each other’s eyes in order to get our points across.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on, and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

It is an ambitious agenda, but the approach to Russia should be, 'Confront where we must, but cooperate where we can.'

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

Pick a co-founder that communicates in the same fashion that you do. If you are a screamer, then the only way you will ever listen to a conflicting point of view is to find someone who is passionate enough to yell back at you.

If I had a row with my husband, it's not going to work my saying, 'Right, if you don't do what I want, I'm going to walk out.' It doesn't work on any level. What you do is you go in and you say, 'I have a problem. You have a problem. Let's try and sort this out together.' You don't come to an agreement with people who you're falling out with badly.

I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

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.