Elizabeth Drew Quotes

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

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.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

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

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I love working closely with people.

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

Communication is important.