Top 1200 Conflict Resolution Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

I've worked with 10 presidents. It's a record. I worked with Republicans and Democrats. All of them when it came to Israel were, movingly, friendly. From Truman, who was the first to recognize Israel 11 minutes after the U.N. resolution, to Obama. When it comes to the major issues of security and strategy, we are together, completely.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

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

Rather than negotiating yet another continuing resolution at the last minute, the appropriations process should work as it was originally designed, with appropriations bills passing the House and the Senate and being signed into law by the president, after robust debate, with a process for amendments.

Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.

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

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

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

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

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

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

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

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

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

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

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.

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

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.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

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

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

As prime minister, Hariri did not directly confront Hezbollah or the Syrians, but conflict simmered nonetheless.

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.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

I'm an equal-opportunity enthusiast for automobiles, but, you know, my New Year's Resolution every year is that I'm gonna take a real automotive class because I spend a lot of time broken down by the side of the road. But so far, I usually still need help unless it's changing a tire.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.

Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

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

I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.

In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

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.

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

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

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.

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

The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

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

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.

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.

If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

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