John Thune Quotes

You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

What we say is an opinion it's the best that we can reach, if anybody can bring a better opinion we will accept it.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

After games, my wife gives me a lot of advice and criticism. Sometimes, I am upset. I say, 'Why do you advise me this?' But I like it, because to listen to a different point of view is always important. You can find a different position or point of view that can help you to be more creative.

Diverse groups do best at complex problems and innovation when the facts aren't clear: each individual's perspective allows him or her to tackle challenges differently and, when stuck, rely on others' differing points of views to progress.

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

I want people to have conversations, to have controversy because it creates dialogue and builds bridges.