Quotes About Discussion

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.19

Roughly speaking, I believe, much abstract cosmopolitan thinking has difficulty in moving on from abstraction to a discussion of institutions because it treats the category of rights as fundamental. The difficulty begins to show as soon as we ask who bears obligations to meet these rights and whether all human beings have the same obligations.

Appreciation for history is scarce today, public debate is only rarely lit by foundational principles, and there is a further reason why the needed discussion fails to get off the ground—especially in the speech code, cancel culture of many American and European universities. Debate is often ended by prejudice and a fashionable consensus that chokes it off from the start.

We are not children; we might exchange empty theories until we're out of breath and merely end up adhering all the more stubbornly to our respective views

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable. William Penn

I sat down in the middle. "So," I said to Darryl, "do you think Korra is going to be as good an avatar as Aang?" "Who's Aang?" he asked. "You started him with Korra?" I accused Jesse. "That's not okay. It's like reading the last chapter of the book first.

My grandfather always said that if you don't argue, you can't be proved wrong.

Four of us,' said Morwen. The cats yowled. 'Yes, I know, and of course you're coming, but you can't carry a bucket of soapy water, so for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter,' she told them. The cats gave her an affronted look, turned their backs, and began making indignant little noises at each other.

One way to identify a relationship of inequality is to determine whether or not the couple can set mutual goals and discuss them together. In an abusive relationship, the couple does not really plan together. Planning together requires mutuality and equality.

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

For example, many times by the end of a meeting, a group finally arrives at the discussion that matters most, but they are out of time to adequately address it. We need to anticipate the time needed to warm up a group to be ready for the important discussions, and then to provide a sufficient space for the conversation to occur.

The first published discussion of it of any length was by Breuer (in semi-physiological terms) in his theoretical part of the Studies on Hysteria (Breuer and Freud, 1895). He there defines it as 'the tendency to keep intracerebral excitation constant.

speakerphone on the table, and another twenty lawyers from across the country had dialed in.

y los amigos discutían para decidir a quién le tocaba pagar la ronda de cerveza.

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

When customers are asked to define relationship in a business situation, they discuss things such as how a salesperson can bring value to their companies.

Las discusiones a nivel superficial alimentadas con ira pueden durar por días y son completamente inefectivas, pero cuando resuelven la verdadera raíz del problema, todos esos asuntos superficiales empiezan a desaparecer. Usted

Los Absolutos se pueden discutir por siempre y nunca resolverse. ¡

keep principles before personalities.7 We adhere to the principle of honestly stating our feelings, but we do not discuss personalities.

Less frequently discussed is how many of us are chronically unhappy because we don't come up to the expectations of our children, many of whom delight in showing us their disapproval.

Ja, we zijn bevrijd van pastoren en hun dwingende moraal, maar nee, we zijn niet vrij, integendeel. Er is een nieuwe moraal met haar eigen hogepriesters, die bovendien meer dwang uitoefenen dan de vorige, omdat ze zich als wetenschappelijk en dus als niet voor discussie vatbaar voordoen. Het enige gebod van die moraal is systematic effectiveness, meteen de mantra van de eerste hogepriester, de manager. De tweede pastoor is de nieuwe psychotherapeut, wiens mantra 'aanpassing' luidt.