Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

Hold on. It’s not a fight. It’s a discussion.

There are good people on both sides of almost every issue.

No two men ever devised plans of action to accomplish a particular object without finding that there were differences in their plans. That is peculiarly the case in international affairs.

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Not everyone agrees. If you disagree with me, I want you to tell me, and I'm going to come back and tell you why it's my opinion.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

You are actually the worst person I have ever met.