Consensus Quotes · Page 4

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

— William Schutz

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

— Abba Eban

You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

— Peter R. Scholtes

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

— Simon Mainwaring

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

— John Negroponte

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

— Anonymous

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

— Gary Cooper

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

— Michael Crichton

The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil…

— Al Gore

“The false consensus effect refers to the tendency for people’s own beliefs, values, and habits to bias their estimates of how widely…

— Thomas Gilovich

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

— Margaret Thatcher

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most…

— Nelson Mandela

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in…

— Hillary Clinton

[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains…

— Al Gore

What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Consensus is horrible. I mean, if everyone really agrees on something and consensus comes about quickly and naturally, well that’s terrific. But…

— Jossey-Bass

Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is…

— Alexis Tsipras

Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute…

— Sarah Palin

It is hard to stay patient about policy matters where everybody agrees about what needs to be done and then it just…

— Rachel Maddow

This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus…

— Charlie Pierce

Part of what you need to understand is that we're forced to look back. You had the importation of third world or…

— Van Jones

The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be…

— Tom Coburn

One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and…

— Michael Steinhardt

One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.…

— John Shelby Spong

Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been…

— Roy Spencer

We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there…

— Ray Kurzweil

In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus…

— Joseph Sobran

Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of…

— Elaine Pagels

Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of…

— Harry Hay

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

— Geert Wilders

Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

— Judd Apatow

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

— Narendra Modi

To deliver Brexit we need to find a consensus in the party.

— Penny Mordaunt

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

— Lance Secretan

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

— Scott Belsky

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

— Al Gore

I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

— David Bodanis