Christopher Voss Quotes
Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
-
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
-
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
-
The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
-
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
-
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
-
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
-
I would love to work on a Bond film.
-
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
-
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
-
The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
-
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
-
If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
-
Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
-
There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
-
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
-
People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
-
In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
-
All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
-
It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
-
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
-
It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
-
Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
