Quotes About Conflict Theory

#1. I scrubbed every inch of my body until it was pink and shiny, laughing hysterically because I had to use Rule's dude soap and ended up smelling like a seventeen-year-old boy who'd just discovered AXE body spray

Jay Crownover

#2. There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.

David Berlinski

#3. Stay on your toes and always move forward.

Evander Holyfield

#4. You should use your influence to help other platforms succeed.

Johnny Hunt

#5. When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.

Widad Akreyi

#6. Who remembers that it was Kirk who introduced us to the cell phone?

Randy Pausch

#7. In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

Henri Nouwen

#8. And rivaling the Democratic Peace theory as a categorical factoid about modern conflict prevention is the Golden Arches theory: no two countries with a McDonald's have ever fought in a war. The only unambiguous Big Mac Attack took place in 1999, when NATO briefly bombed Yugoslavia.234

Steven Pinker

#9. (Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in mathematical terms. Sometimes the logical structure of a conflict situation admits rational decisions; sometimes it does not.

Anatol Rapoport

#10. What chimps don't seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don't have a theory of mind that accounts for actions driven by beliefs in conflict with reality. And really, who lacking that will ever be able to navigate the human world?

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Thomas Friedman

#12. The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Grove Karl Gilbert

#13. I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

Robert Aumann

#14. I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

David Baker

#15. Yes, I have a very small and mostly nerdy fan club. And much to my amazement, it grows a little larger every day. Apparently, these new recruits liked what they saw of my act on YouTube (even though everybody wishes that doofus blocking the camera had a smaller head).

James Patterson

#16. through his hair nervously. "It's simple, really. The more we ask technology to do for us, the more power we have to give it.

James Patterson

#17. The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

Pope Pius XII

#18. The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#19. Sentimentality could blind a man to the truth. Those who appear the most trustworthy deserve the most suspicion.

Tom Rob Smith

#20. If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Baruch Spinoza

#21. When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.

Walter Isaacson

#22. Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.

Anatol Rapoport

#23. I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Thomas Schelling

#24. The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.

Brie Larson

#25. It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

Anatol Rapoport

#26. A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

Ernest Renan

#27. A linguistically informed literary criticism is the key to resolving conflict and frustration, from psychotherapy and law to philosophy and politics. Call this the messianic theory. It is based on the idea that TO THINK IS TO GRASP A METAPHOR-the metaphor metaphor.

Steven Pinker