Quotes About Voss

#1. As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.

Patrick White

#2. In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Patrick White

#3. I am Reaylin de Voss," she said smugly, as if he should recognize her surname. He did not, which meant her family was not particularly wealthy, powerful or influential. "Well,

Kel Kade

#4. Bailey Voss smiled at her daughter. Being

Susan Mallery

#5. Having been in front of the camera just a couple of times, I'm empathetic, because it's very disconcerting. Someone shuffles you off to the trailer; you sit there for eleven hours wondering what the hell's going on.

Kurt Voss

#6. Some people are Accommodators; others - like me - are basically Assertive; and the rest are data-loving Analysts.

Chris Voss

#7. Don't blame others for your assumption of their actions; the best resolution is to simply ask.

A.R. Voss

#8. NO" STARTS THE NEGOTIATION My

Chris Voss

#9. Life is negotiation. The

Chris Voss

#10. To get real leverage, you have to persuade them that they have something concrete to lose if the deal falls through.

Chris Voss

#11. A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

A.R. Voss

#12. I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks.

Kurt Voss

#13. Great negotiators are able to question the assumptions that the rest of the involved players accept on faith or in arrogance, and thus remain more emotionally open to all possibilities, and more intellectually agile to a fluid situation. Unfortunately,

Chris Voss

#14. The easiest way to stay super-focused is to be well rested and not do any multi-tasking unless you absolutely have to.

Lawrence Voss

#15. you get what you ask for; you just have to ask correctly.

Chris Voss

#16. A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.

Kurt Voss

#17. In fact, "No" often opens the discussion up. The sooner you say "No," the sooner you're willing to see options and opportunities that you were blind to previously. Saying "No" often spurs people to action because they feel they've protected themselves and now see an opportunity slipping away. Since

Chris Voss

#18. The problem is that conventional questioning and research techniques are designed to confirm known knowns and reduce uncertainty.

Chris Voss

#19. sometimes people couldn't be saved, no matter how much you wanted it, no matter how hard you tried.

Ann Voss Peterson

#20. being right isn't the key to a successful negotiation - having the right mindset is. HOW

Chris Voss

#21. For anger to be effective, it has to be real, the key for it is to be under control because anger also reduces our cognitive ability. And

Chris Voss

#22. I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

Kurt Voss

#23. A book is the gateway to the soul of its author.

A.R. Voss

#24. A regime responsible for such a scheme of mass killings was corrupt to the core and did not deserve to survive. It's a disgrace that we didn't overthrow it, but left it to be eradicated by our enemies.

Johann Voss

#25. I wouldn't want to put myself up for something that I didn't think I could do a good job on. I wouldn't to direct material I didn't feel I could serve, but I don't have anything against doing bigger pictures.

Kurt Voss

#26. Life has been dealt to us flawed; doesn't mean we have to like it all the time, but live it and make the best of it to our greatest ability.

A.R. Voss

#27. In this world, you get what you ask for; you just have to ask correctly. So

Chris Voss

#28. When two people end a relationship after many years, they temporarily become the worst versions of themselves before they discover who they are outside the relationship.

Stacey Voss

#29. To successfully gain a hostage's safe release, a negotiator had to penetrate the hostage-taker's motives, state of mind, intelligence, and emotional strengths and weaknesses. The negotiator played the role of bully, conciliator, enforcer, savior, confessor, instigator, and

Chris Voss

#30. I mean, have you ever tried to devise a mutually beneficial win-win solution with a guy who thinks he's the messiah? It

Chris Voss

#31. Going too fast is one of the mistakes all negotiators are prone to making.

Chris Voss

#32. If you take a pit bull approach with another pit bull, you generally end up with a messy scene and lots of bruised feelings and resentment. Luckily, there's another way without all the mess. It's just four simple steps: 1.

Chris Voss

#33. No" is not failure. Used strategically it's an answer that opens the path forward.

Chris Voss

#34. And of course, the big question, the one that really keeps us coming back, is who will die next? Who will kill them? And who will win?

Voss Foster

#35. He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.

Chris Voss

#36. Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on." You get one or two takes. So it's a tough job.

Kurt Voss