Antonio Guterres Quotes

It's very hard to get the dynamics where two people can stimulate each other and be happy.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.

One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.

Any time there's a wedge or a secret put between two people in a group, it's an obstacle - but there's also a chance to get over it and become closer.

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

Internal unity means that external security issues can be dealt with.

For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.

Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited, we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable international environment.

I'm not shy. I'm quiet. With my close friends. I talk a lot. But if I'm at a big dinner, I'm not gonna walk in and go introduce myself to everybody.

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

Relationships are very complex. It's very unusual to see something which is so 'complex portrayed on screen.

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend a lot of time in each other's company. That 10 days is very important, and I think even times for training, times when you eat, meetings, this that and the other, a lot has got to change in that camp.

When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a great speech and impress them. Instead, I will go down and discuss with those people about certain issues that we don't agree, and over a glass of wine we talk about it and they say 'okay, let's forget it.'

I prefer social dramas.

I've been around clubhouses a long time, I know how to maneuver around the clubhouse.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

Coming from a smaller nation in Central Europe, I have learned pretty soon how important are agreed rules, cooperation, respect for partners and, most of all, willingness to listen and find common solutions.

There is a lot of energy between Lars and James, and sometimes that energy can erupt. I know that before I was in the band, Kirk was the guy who was often in the middle, and it was important at that time. And now I feel like sometimes I'm the guy that's in the middle between not just James and Lars, but even Kirk.

The issue you have with two competitive guys being brought up the same way is that you don't have one person who goes out of his way to make a relationship.