Nayvadius Wilburn Quotes

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

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

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

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

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

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.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

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 want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

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.

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, when handled correctly, strengthens.

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.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

Life with another person is always difficult.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

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.

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.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.