Quotes About Consensus

What makes Samsung so mysterious is that it's not altogether clear who leads the company or what its leaders do. The company follows an avowedly Confucian model of consensus-driven decision-making, values bone-crushingly hard work, and shows tremendous deference to the founding Lee family, despite its lack of a controlling interest in its shares.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it.

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

Successful nemawashi enables change to be the result of consensus among the parties.

The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.

There may be strength in numbers, but not necessarily truth.

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

In politics, acceptability plays very important role. On one hand, acceptability among the coalition partners is required for smooth functioning of the government. On the other hand, acceptability among the people is needed to run the country.

To deliver a smooth, orderly Brexit, we must build a majority for a deal.

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

I agreed heartily with him

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.

There are no facts—only observational postulates in an endlessly regenerative hodgepodge of predictions. Consensus reality requires a fixed frame of reference. In a multi-level, infinite universe, there can be no fixity; thus, no absolute consensus reality. In a relativistic universe, it appears impossible to test the reliability of any expert by requiring him to agree with another expert. Both can be correct, each in his own inertial system. Bene Gesserit Azhar Book

We lack consensus about our place in the Universe. There is no generally agreed upon long-term vision of the goal of our species—other than, perhaps, simple survival. Especially when times are hard, we become desperate for encouragement, unreceptive to the litany of great demotions and dashed hopes, and much more willing to hear that we're special, never mind if the evidence is paper-thin.

Rational moral choices are based on the value of life, not a consensus. A consensus can't make the sun rise at midnight, nor can it change a wrong into a right, or the other way around. If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand other men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters

We're not trying to mess