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Quotes About Discussion

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?
~ Ma Yansong
In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.
~ Joel Kinnaman
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
~ Cesar Chavez
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
~ Richard Meier
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.
~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
~ Richard Meier
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
~ Peter Lindbergh
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
~ John Lasseter
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
~ Ruth Behar
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
~ Dorothy Stratten
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
~ Chinua Achebe
Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.
~ Dave Sim
When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening and discuss about the stock market.
~ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.
~ Jeff Perry
It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'
~ Michael Patrick King
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.
~ Martha Beck
If you talk to a British officer or NCO about the strategic objectives of the end state, you'll often get a spirited discussion that's very well informed.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
Since the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems.
~ Timothy Snyder
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
~ Tipper Gore
Since Sissy had been born months before the subject of Not Having Any More Children had been brought up, there had been a couple of times and one entire Network meeting that had been dedicated to it. The husbands were all invited, since they had something to do with it. It was common, revolutionary courtesy.
~ Todd Boyd
A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
~ John Rhys-Davies
If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
~ David O. Selznick