Consensus Quotes · Page 7

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

— Anonymous

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

— Simon Mainwaring

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

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

— Deena Metzger

Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.

— Forbes Burnham

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

— Gloria Naylor

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

— William Schutz

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which…

— Margaret Thatcher

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together,…

— Kehinde Wiley

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to…

— Renata Adler

“Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of…

— Solomon E. Asch

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

— Joseph C. Rost

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

— Timothy Noah

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a…

— Reid Hoffman

Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the…

— Eboo Patel

Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try…

— Matt Ridley

Every other country where there's absolute chaos now, what is it? They're pluralistic without consensus. Look at almost every single country, from…

— Joe Biden

Reporting the consensus about climate change ... is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It…

— David Robert Whitehouse

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then…

— Barack Obama

People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that…

— William Kristol

“When it does come time to decide, the decision maker wants to know he’s got the strong backing of his team. In…

— Matthew Dixon

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to…

— Norman Cousins

Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends…

— Sarah Thornton

“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and…

— Noam Chomsky

I have a bad rote memory, but I tend to learn through my experiences. And then when I went into the markets,…

— Ray Dalio

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values…

— Peter Kreeft

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as…

— David Edward

People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good…

— William Bennett

Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument…

— Sadakat Kadri

The biggest issue with perfect is that there is not one definition; not even a clear consensus.

— T Jay Taylor

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

— Peter Mandelson

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first…

— Simon Conway Morris

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…

— Eric Alterman

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of…

— Harri Holkeri

There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has…

— Anonymous

Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time…

— Michio Kaku

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent,

— Seth Klarman