Dan Savage Quotes

That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.

If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

The next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something like this: 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I'd feel exactly the same way. What would you like for me to do?' These are magical, healing words, and you'll be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on their side.

My brand of leadership, which is very focused on bringing people together, solving problems - it's what I have always tried to do - just had a hard time being as powerfully compelling in the campaign as I think it has been in previous years for other candidates.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.

The goal is to keep the dialogue open. There are issues in the USA that a lot of people feel strongly about. The goal is just to fix those issues. To make progress on those issues.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.