Art Garfunkel Quotes

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

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

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

My relationship with Laporta? I always had a direct relationship with him, in that if I said something, we would be able to discuss it like men.

I can pretty much tell which way a meeting's gonna go in the first three or four minutes. Because if someone's not taking me seriously, I'm definitely not taking them seriously.

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

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.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

I've had meetings where there were literally, like, 12 angry men in a room and me. And even when everyone shot me down, I somehow dug in one more time.

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second and third? boldness.

He [her husband] asks me for advice and doesn't take it as much as he does.

No advisor is ever listened to just because he insists on being heard.