Quotes About Disagreement

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.

Four out of Five Dentist think that the Fifth Dentist is an idiot.

Fuck you, Taft.

Did you know that Four out of Five Dentist think the Fifth Dentist is an idiot!

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

chickened out. They had had a big argument. Marguerite's lips turned down in a pout when she thought

But the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent - however irritating it may be when taken to extremes - is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion. A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.

Silloin he taas nauroivat ja heidän mielestään oli tavattoman hullunkurista, että hemuli oli saanut koko elämänsä ajan tehdä sellaista, mikä ei ollut hänestä hauskaa. Ja vain sen takia, ettei voinut sanoa vastaan.

Juuri tällä hetkellä hän halusi tapella kenen kanssa tahansa, vain tapella ja huutaa ja olla vakuuttunut siitä, että kaikki muut olivat väärässä ja että hänen oli annettava niille selkään.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

It was NINETY-SIXTY-FIVE-NINETY PERSON ME!" Cliff objected.

love!" Sundew yelped at the same time as Mandrake stammered, "No,

When a group of intelligent people come together to talk about issues that matter, it is both natural and productive for disagreement to occur. Resolving those issues is what makes a meeting productive, engaging, even fun.

Nowhere does this tendency toward artificial harmony show itself more than in mission-driven nonprofit organizations, most notably churches. People who work in those organizations tend to have a misguided idea that they cannot be frustrated or disagreeable with one another. What they're doing is confusing being nice with being kind.

Avoiding the issues that merit debate and disagreement not only makes the meeting boring, it guarantees that the issues won't be resolved. And this is a recipe for frustration. Ironically, that frustration often manifests itself later in the form of unproductive personal conflict, or politics.

And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.

It's the lack of conflict that's a problem. Harmony itself is good, I suppose, if it comes as a result of working through issues constantly and cycling through conflict. But if it comes only as a result of people holding back their opinions and honest concerns, then it's a bad thing. I'd trade that false kind of harmony any day for a team's willingness to argue effectively about an issue and then walk away with no collateral damage.

consensus is usually not achievable. The likelihood of six intelligent people coming to a sincere and complete agreement on a complex and important topic is very low.

conflict is productive

When team members do not openly debate and disagree about important ideas, they often turn to back channel personal attacks, which are far nastier and more harmful than any heated argument over issues

Every great movie has conflict.

they got numbers 20 guns apart.

These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant--even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.