Top 1200 Conflict Of Interest Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

We can learn from this history that when the Department of Justice, the FBI, the DEA, and the state and local police and prosecutors were combined in a task force directed by and at the mafia, when they looked at the mafia and really went after them, they were able to get great, great successes and prosecutions out of them in seizing their business interest, in a lot of things; including their business interest, taking them away, and removing their infiltration from legitimate areas of society.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

The good things of life do not fall from the skies. They can only come by hard work and over a long time. The government cannot produce results unless the people support and sustain the work of the government. There may be times when, in the interest of the whole community, we may have to take steps that are unpopular with a section of the community. On such occasions, remember that the principle which guides our actions is that the paramount interest of the whole community must prevail.

Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.