John Roos

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

American Diplomat

Stellan Skarsgard

I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting.

Swedish Actor

Isabel Allende

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

Chilean Writer

Ronnie Wood

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

English Musician

Robert M. Gates

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.

American Politician

Azita Ghanizada

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

Afghani Actress

Karl Kraus

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Austrian Writer

David Ignatius

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

American Journalist

Walter Salles

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

Brazilian Director

Camillo di Cavour

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Italian Statesman

Often describes officials in embassies or international organizations.

International Relations

Used for representatives on formal missions, especially for political discussions.

Official Envoy

Emphasizes the role of maintaining and promoting peace between countries.

Peaceful Negotiations

Highlights the ability to handle issues without offending others.

Tactful Communication

Shows the skill in peacefully settling disputes in any context, not just political.

Conflict Resolution

Refers to the ability to sway opinions or decisions without direct authority.

Subtle Influence

 so here you have a diplomat in the real world that spends his time in Eve Online to kind of test, maybe, all of his ideas about diplomacy and about universe-building, and to the point that the first announcement of the bombing was actually given on Eve Online, and after his death, several parts of the universe

Paola Antonelli: Why I...

 So you get the best of both worlds. And a similar analysis, I think, can apply to the potential awkwardness of a sexual solicitation, and other cases where plausible deniability is an asset. I think this affirms something that's long been known by diplomats -- namely, that the vagueness of language,

Steven Pinker: What our...

 you can see that we have the bully, he's pulling on the trunk of this baby calf, and then we have the diplomat who's reaching over and saying, "No, don't do that! Stop doing that!" And then, of course, we have the bystander. And how do you get these three different characters within the family?

The family structure of...

 or what it had for breakfast, we can't expect standardized tests alone to reliably tell us how smart someone is, how diplomats will handle a tough situation, or how brave a firefighter might turn out to be. So standardized tests may help us learn a little about a lot of people in a short time,

Should we get rid of...

 go join the United Nations as a diplomat and work for the World Health Organization. And he made an outrageous prediction that smallpox would be eradicated, and that this was God's gift to humanity, because of the hard work of dedicated scientists. And that prediction came true.

Larry Brilliant: TED...

 these neat narratives that we're presented with, and that perhaps we encourage in each other. I believe in randomness, and one of the reasons I believe that is because me becoming a diplomat was random. I'm colorblind. I was born unable to see most colors.

Carne Ross: An...

 with his military exploits. He does what he needs to do to preserve order on behalf of Egypt's gods. Ramses was a warrior king and a diplomat who ruled over an extraordinary period of peace and prosperity.

The Egyptian and Hittite...

 Every day I hope that politicians, diplomats, development workers can turn conflict into peace and threat into hope. And I hope that one day armies can be disbanded

Peter van Uhm: Why I...

 and that almost destroyed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor -- all laid out.

Bunker Roy: Learning...

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