Quotes About Agreement

Regardless of what position people originally took, once the decision is made, everyone supports it. That's why it is critical that no one hold anything back during the discussion.

Yeah, in my last company we called it 'disagree and commit.' You can argue about something and disagree, but still commit to it as though everyone originally bought into the decision completely.

Well, some teams get paralyzed by their need for complete agreement, and their inability to move beyond debate.

Where there was no equality there was no companionship: when a man was obliged to say 'Yes, sir,' his agreement was of no worth even if it happened to be true.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

As New Testament scholar Ernst Käsemann once said, "In scholarship as in life, no one can possess the truth except by constantly learning it afresh; and no one can learn it afresh without listening to the people who are his companions on the search for that truth. Community does not necessarily mean agreement."13

It's easier to get people to fight for an idea. And whichever side wins, their ideas will also be considered to have triumphed, as if God wanted to signal his agreement by selecting that side as the victor.

To regulate the flow of fieldworkers, the Bracero Program (Mexicans working on short-term contracts) was established in 1942 under an agreement between the US and Mexico.

Did she consent? But words failed her. This willful assent they were suddenly asking her to express was the agreement to surrender herself, to say yes in advance to everything to which she most assuredly wanted to say yes but to which her body said no...

All we ask you to do is submit to it, and, if you scream or moan, to agree ahead of time that it will be in vain

I'll do whatever you like

Normality is merely a matter of consensus; that is, a lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

Si mucha gente piensa que una cosa está bien, es correcta, entonces esa cosa pasa a estar bien y ser correcta.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Your views are now my own.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.