Christopher Voss Quotes

There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting what they want. And there's a particular type in particular, the assertive negotiator: being understood is actually more important to them than actually making the deal.

Christopher Voss

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ImportantWantWillMoreUnderstood

I would love to do a podcast because I've done so many of them, guesting on them. Plus, anything goes, which I love.

Jim O'Heir

LoveDoneAnythingBecauseWould

I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

Joe Jonas

LovePastFashionYearOverGot

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Jena Malone

TeenDressesAdolescencePromJust

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

Meghan Daum

ParentsGrowYouEarlyKnowPoor

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

Maurice Allais

ScienceDataConsequencesThree

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

Matt Haig

MindThoughtsYouUnderstandReason

A book worth reading is worth buying.

John Ruskin

BookReadingWorthBuying

I couldn't get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that's just how things are.

Sinbad

MeGangsterYouBadKnowSee

I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and principles that will help us achieve a more perfect union.

Ron DeSantis

FutureIdeasAmericaHelpPerfect

I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?

Mirai Nagasu

ButterflyMeBetter PersonBetter

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

Missy Elliott

PressureBloodAlwaysUpJust

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

Louise Nurding

WomenAgeMeWrinklesLookKnow

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