Consensus Building Quotes

#1. President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

Alan Dershowitz

#2. I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

Margaret Hamburg

#4. That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Harri Holkeri

#5. You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.

Olympia Snowe

#6. I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Joe Lieberman

#7. Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Raymond Kelly

#8. I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

Alice Waters

#9. O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

William Shakespeare

#10. Building and maintaining consensus while collaborating is the hardest part of building software.

Russell Jurney

#11. Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

Ron Fournier

#12. A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

Robert Breault

#13. If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.

Charlie Munger

#14. I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

Nick Hanauer

#15. The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Al Gore

#16. The moral of Pete's story is:
No matter what you step in,
keep walking along and
singing your song. Because it's all good." Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes

Eric Litwin

#17. "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

Abraham Cowley

#18. We can be mended.

Veronica Roth

#19. A voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare.

Sarah Dunant

#20. Our health is our wealth.

Marian Keyes

#21. Time is indifferent of the events and triumphs and tragedies of mankind, and really even, for the most part, of its own inexorable passage.

Ross Turner

#22. I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

Miguel Torres

#23. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Matthew Pearl

#24. While the individual contributions provide the "building block" of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting.

Pearl Zhu