Rei Kawakubo Quotes

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

We don’t want any more than you have and we will not settle for anything less

Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

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.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.

I really do not make deals.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.