Quotes About Consensus

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.

I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on.

At the end of the day, we have obviously our own political realities that will not allow us to approve something that is not in the benefit of everybody.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

Gradually, decentralized trust will be accepted as a new and effective trust model. We have seen this evolution of understanding before - on the Internet.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

You have to work across the aisle. Americans have had enough of the gridlock in Washington.

if you ask enough people, you'll find someone who will disagree with the majority and give those nervous about risk a way out.

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.

Our biggest threat is not too much Europe, but too little.

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

[That faith is catholic] which has been believed always, everywhere, and by all.

It is also a matter of greater consensus than ever that the high and equal status of human beings entitles them to some basic political freedoms, such as the rights to speak and to be free from torture. When it comes to what share people ought to get of the good things in life, however, consensus is much harder to achieve.

Collective will supplants individual whim

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.