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Quotes about Agreement

Well, some teams get paralyzed by their need for complete agreement, and their inability to move beyond debate.
— Patrick Lencioni
The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?
— John Maxwell
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat
— William Ury
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
— Cicero
We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.
— Hillary Clinton
I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
— Carol Burnett
Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.
— James K. Polk
Jerome then speaks of the unity of the sacred books. Whatever, he asserts, we read in the Old Testament we find also in the Gospel; and what we read in the Gospel is deduced from the Old Testament. There is no discord between them, no disagreement.
— Jerome
There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.
— John F. Kennedy
Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.
— John Wooden
He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.
— Davis Bunn
Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.
— Zig Ziglar