At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy. ' So I grew a beard.
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues.
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late. What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?
Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve
Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.
