When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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You open your mind up to gre... DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rog... SARAH MACLEAN Whether it's a family or a team or a business, trust is the cornerstone of any good operation. I thi... ED HEINTSCHEL I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they... SHARON SHINN The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ... TREVOR NOAH Oddly enough, we feel more pressure than when he was with us. Now, everyone wants to see what we're ... GEORGE HINCAPIE We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becom... DAVID LACHAPELLE I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members ... JESSE METCALFE When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of... DOLORES HUERTA A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they'r... W. DANIEL HILLIS The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because... NORTHROP FRYE My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or le... LIAM HEMSWORTH I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're bein... SEAN PENN Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of ... M. SCOTT PECK No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for ... RON HOWARD Brainstorm and make impossible possible. Make contradictions realistic. As if a contradiction is the... PRIYAVRAT THAREJA How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look int... R. J. CAMPBELL I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the c... LAKE BELL You had to trust each other to cross under or over and only move when the other person moves, so the... ANGELINA JOLIE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capa... KAZUO ISHIGURO In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're ... KREAYSHAWN 'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they w... CHRIS PINE Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when the... BILL SIMMONS The value of life is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of tr... STEVEN REDHEAD But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than ei... NICHOLAS SPARKS There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your... NIECY NASH Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS When the founders spoke of the pursuit of happiness they didn't mean longer vacations or more stuff.... DAVID MCCULLOUGH Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'... KENNETH BRANAGH 'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reade... MICHEL FABER We know how to lift each other when we need it. I know those guys have my back when I need it. We tr... ISAIAH THOMAS There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and... ANUJ SOMANY I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that a... JOHN MALKOVICH Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mi... JASON SILVA What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. ERIC IDLE When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't wan... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important ... KEN CUCCINELLI I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admi... AMBER HEARD each of the members of our first team is much better than our coach. ALAN SHERMAN We've accomplished, as a team, more than many other members -- probably most other members of the Co... BOB BARR Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each o... VERA NAZARIAN What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need... DORIS LESSING Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self. DAVID FROST Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my repor... KARA SWISHER When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in... BARON D'HOLBACH When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begi... ZHANG ZIYI Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than look... ALAN COHEN When nothing is possible, then do the impossible. DEBASISH MRIDHA There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they ... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI In pursuit of Nirvana you may not know what your question is but you will know for sure when you hea... PRATIK SHARDA When talking to first-time entrepreneurs, I often ask them: 'How do you know that people want yo... KATHRYN MINSHEW I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because... PEP GUARDIOLA They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing mor... KARA WALKER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They... GARY SHEFFIELD One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit ... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS You create a team atmosphere, and the guys really learn to trust each other. They're doing things wh... JOE JURASZEK When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We... HANS HAACKE Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It... STEVEN VAN ZANDT Metal rusts, music lasts forever. PATRICK ROTHFUSS There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting t... JOSEPH FINK Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by ... THOMAS MANN Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling whe... NATALIA KILLS When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're ... ERIC S. RAYMOND For once I thought I was dead; for once I thought I had lost everything, and for once I thought all ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. HARVEY S. FIRESTONE Members of our senior team are in Bahrain to ensure that our people are given the best possible atte... BRIAN BRUCE Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as th... GRAYDON CARTER Have pleasure from the pursuit. ABHIJIT NASKAR THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all... A. W. TOZER Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? SARAH DESSEN Computer hackers are the true journalists in the 21st Century. The old journalism is worse than dead... A.E. SAMAAN There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me ... AUBREY DE GREY There is nothing wrong with arguing with yourself. It's when you LOSE when it becomes weird. JACKLYN ELICOTE I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo... ANGELA RICHARDSON A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. BO BENNETT To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, o... KATEY SAGAL Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you... AL LOPEZ If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meani... AVA DELLAIRA The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight... TAMMY BLANCHARD It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, ... PETER FALK Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can’t bea... CHRISTOPHER BARZAK When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answer... SHANNON L. ALDER It is sobering. You think when you come here everyone is the best of the best and they are going to ... MICKY MALLETTE I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unha... JOHN LYDON Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fire... JANE MCGONIGAL When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm ... ETTA JAMES Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquainta... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or ... PATRICK LENCIONI I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and... RONALDINHO People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable o... T.I. There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a... LEROY JACK SYROP The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. STEVEN SPIELBERG
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PATRICK DUFFY I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I w... PATRICK DUFFY I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite... PATRICK DUFFY Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about dr... PATRICK DUFFY It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which ... PATRICK DUFFY I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ... PATRICK DUFFY I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ... PATRICK DUFFY I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A... PATRICK DUFFY It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc... PATRICK DUFFY I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career. PATRICK DUFFY Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors. PATRICK DUFFY There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you ma... PATRICK DUFFY The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th... PATRICK DUFFY I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o... PATRICK DUFFY I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ... PATRICK DUFFY Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but... PATRICK DUFFY There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon. PATRICK DUFFY Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am... PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro... PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me... PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m... PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo... PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT