Jessica Savitch Quotes

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

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

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

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

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.

As a team, we're all inside a bubble. Each of us only has so much room to operate. You have to carve out your space and recognize that because of someone else's needs, you might have to compromise a bit.

There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

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.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

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.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.