Rick Riordan Quotes

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

Angus has had a few swings at me, maybe two or three times in our whole career. But then it's done, and it's not gonna drag on, because it's not worth it. We have to stick together. And we know that.

It is important that it - sometimes there are clashes between team-mates. We need each other to tell the truth, and this is not always a positive.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.

It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

I don't fight people for fun.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.