Quotes About Consultation

Wylie: If you don't like advice, why do you pay me? Stahr: That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.

I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

My wife is absolutely one of my key advisors. She comes from a background that's very different than mine.

Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

I can't give you an answer this moment, but let me talk to my advisors and we'll get back to you with more questions.

The combatants, 'monocled and bespatted', mounted a horse-drawn carriage and rode in triumph down Constitution Hill, the Mall and Trafalgar Square. Speaking as imperial grand prior of the League, Hamilton reportedly told journalists that the organisation 'views with unabashed antipathy all forms of democracy, especially the referendum'. 'We oppose anything that is common, whether it be consultation of the common people or the Common Market.

Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost? Mica asked. Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor? Sarcasm lay thick and heavy in her voice. I believe a consult would be a good idea. Ely nodded with mocking solemnity as Mica lifted herself onto the gurney. You never know what you may end up hurting if the act isn't done properly.

Though he be not hedged in with ceremonial respect, his sons at least accost him with confidence; no settled form of speech is appropriated to the mode of addressing him, but they speak to him constantly, and are ready to consult him day by day; the master and the constituted ruler have vanished—the father remains.

The King ruled in consultation with his chief nobles, who fromed the nucleus of what was in effect a military aristocracy, whose power was centered on the castles they used to subdue and dominate the land.

CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

Consultar, v.l. Requerir la aprobación de otro para tomar una actitud ya resuelta.

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment.

A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable—in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would.

She talked to him everyday; she told him everything, rarely making a decision without having a conversation with him first. Even those decisions that had little to do with him, like what subject to choose for a paper she was writing.

I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

Professional investment advisers are best at providing other valuable services, including asset allocation guidance, information on tax considerations, and advice on how much to save while you work and how much to spend when you retire. Further, most advisers are always there to consult with you about the financial markets.

Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who came to consult or visit him were impressed as much by his courtesy and humour as by his wisdom and the quality of his mind.

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.