Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.