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.

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• If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Will
  • Hollywood
  • I Can

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Model

• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • You
  • 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Support
  • Die
  • Grow

• 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.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• I would love to work on a Bond film.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Work
  • Love
  • Bond

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• 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.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • School
  • Religious
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Bless

• 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.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• 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?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Perfect
  • Best
  • Terrorism

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

  

  Jenna Dewan

• Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Help

• I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • English

• The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Understanding

• I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Understanding
  • Pleasure

• Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Understanding
  • Path