Bob Greene Quotes

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.

In the heat of battle you might not be thinking clearly and that is when players have to take on the responsibility of helping the other guys out.

I feel like I've always been a great mediator.

Pellegrini is always calm; if you have problems, he will try to resolve it.

A lot of what a military officer does is not just leading troops in combat. It's also doing budgets. It's solving complex problems. If you can sit down with warlords, you can certainly sit down with different parties and folks with different interests and come out with an amenable solution.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen.

Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can come up with a creative activity that will help us out." I'm like, "Let's get out the pens! Draw a picture of how much you hate me!"

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.