The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration. — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places. — Catherine Ashton Copy Share Image
The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia… — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“It is intrinsically impossible for the pope, as pope, to speak with authority on the details of climate science. Nor is he… — John Zmirak Copy Share Image
Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year;… — Hal Varian Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
“If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have a bad rote memory, but I tend to learn through my experiences. And then when I went into the markets,… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
“Successful nemawashi enables change to be the result of consensus among the parties.” — Stephen Asbury Copy Share Image
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? — Meredith Belbin Copy Share Image
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. — Peter R. Scholtes Copy Share Image
