Owen Farrell Quotes

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Negotiators run the risk of achieving agreement and then having to take yes for an answer when they are emotionally accustomed to confrontation.

My nature is to compromise and get things done for the state.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

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. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.