Consensus Quotes

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice.

When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

The world would be entirely different if it were run by women.

I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.

If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.

I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.

Washington Consensus - The Washington Consensus is a set of ten economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked

Consensus algorithm - Consensus algorithm may refer to one of several proposed protocols for solving the consensus problem in the field of Computer Science which is used to

Consensus reality - Consensus reality is that which is generally agreed to be reality, based on a consensus view. The appeal to consensus arises from the fact that humans

1992 Consensus - The "1992 Consensus", also known as the "Consensus of 1992" or the "One China" Consensus (「一中各表」, 「一個中國各自表述」, with different interpretations), is a political

Consensus government - A consensus government is one in which the cabinet is appointed by the legislature without reference to political parties. Consensus government chiefly

Liberal consensus - policies Liberal consensus – the post World War II consensus in American politics Post-war consensus – the post World War II consensus in United Kingdom

Uniting for Consensus - Uniting for Consensus (UfC) is a movement, nicknamed the Coffee Club, that developed in the 1990s in opposition to the possible expansion of permanent

Consensus sequence - In molecular biology and bioinformatics, the consensus sequence (or canonical sequence) is the calculated order of most frequent residues, either nucleotide

Scientific consensus - Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study. Consensus implies general

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins.

When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus.

We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government.

It's inevitable... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization.