Quotes About Discussion

An opinion is not a momentary thing but a process of thinking, shaped by the continuous acquisition of knowledge and the activity of questioning, discussion, and debate.

Tocqueville remarks on this in Democracy in America. "An American," he wrote, "cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation.

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Jimmy: Barbara and I have discussed godfathers at length and we have come to the conclusion that, whether the baby is a girl or boy, we would be consider it an honour if you would agree to accept this office as an adjunct to the more disreputable positions you have held in the past.

Nelson: I would be more than delighted, and the honour in mine, not the baby's. Now they dare not hang me.

have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go on ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

VILLENEUVE HOLDS A COUNCIL OF WAR

They evolve because of the experiences and resulting expectations of people as they buy, use, adapt, discuss and interact with the brand and the absorption of those experiences by employees who in turn can use that knowledge to re-structure and re-present the brand.

breakfast, I again tried to convince Mum to

On a stop over at Hong Kong airport heading home we phoned the Hipgnosis studio to brief Storm on the cover design for Meddle. The title had been hastily concocted and, maybe inspired by some Zen-like image of water gardens, we told Storm we wanted 'an ear under water'. Time differences meant that neither party was on top form for the telephone discussion, but even across the intervening miles, we could hear the sound of Storm's eyes rolling.

Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.

Purpose is a call to action. But in order to hear that call and respond to it, we need to understand the distractions that get in the way of a serious discussion of an organization's Purpose. And in many companies, that starts with the most persuasive distraction: the maximization of profit. PURPOSE

On the verbal level everything is relative. Absolutes should be experienced, not discussed.

AMANDA [overriding him]: Now, Victor, I refuse to discuss anything in the least important until after breakfast. I couldn't concentrate now, I know I couldn't.

This is who we had become by then, people who gathered in the rain, arguing over whether or not they were getting wet.

Our task as science educators is to ensure that discussions of values and ethics in science become models of rational inquiry rather than verbal free-for-ails where uninformed individuals generate more heat than light as they share mutual ignorance.8's

This might be good, I thought as I studied the crowd. There were several definitely intelligen?t guys present, not strobe-lig?ht intellects but people who could make you uncomforta?ble in a debate if you got too much beyond what you absolutely had the facts on.

These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.

The Rohkohn Hao, Tahneh, was sharing her evening meal with her chief judge and discussing the current drought when she first learned of the foreigners who had entered her territory.

Wojnicz ju? zauwa?y?, ?e ka?da dyskusja, czy sz?o o demokracj?, czy o pi?ty wymiar, czy o rol? religii socjalizm, Europ?, wreszcie sztuk? nowoczesn?, wszystko w ko?cu sprowadza?o si? do kobiet