I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTA spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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