The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.
– Robert Dallek
Related Quotes:
- Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always traffic on the common route. – Israelmore Ayivor
- You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. – Kofi Annan
- A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. – Charles Wheelan
- Life is about finding yourself. Finding yourself is about finding your ultimate goal, ultimate passion. – Debasish Mridha
- Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. – Haruki Murakami
- I know, at the time it was an imperfect solution in an imperfect world. – Andrew James Pritchard
- diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
- Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly. – Christopher Nutall
- Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist. – Marty Rubin
- Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist. – Marty Rubin
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route – Robert Edison Fulton Jr
- When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos. – Robert Bolt
- Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. – Philip Kotler
- Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. – Tahir Shah
- and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore. – Terra Elan McVoy
- Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. – Deborah Day
- Better to be safe than to be sorry’ is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. – Idries Shah
- …the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good. – Michael R Solomon
- We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us – JG Ballard
- Life is full of alternatives but no choice. – Patrick White
- People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different. – Mary Catherine Bateson
- Humans are forever discontent-”always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives. – Maurice Chevalier
- To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change. – bell hooks
- it is hard to let go , to imagine alternatives, stop thinking about things you are not ready to explore . – Kamal Benslimane Soufiane
- Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. – Marilyn Vos Savant
- In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults. – Dada Bhagwan
- Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist – and finding a solution – or seeing what does not yet exist – and finding an opportunity. – Max McKeown
- Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The awakening process is not about ‘finding who you are’ but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not. – Maria Erving
- I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us – Peyton J Glenn
- If you think about it, finding true love is a lot like finding a particular grain of sand on the beach. – Chrissy Anderson
- Maybe it’s not just about finding the perfect friend, partner, or tribe, but finding the perfection in those you’ve already found. – Mike Dooley
- Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score – Frederick the Great
- Diplomacy’s primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes – Gregory Benford
- He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense. – Barbara W Tuchman