The aimof argument

The aimof argument
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
  

Jan, 20 2012     74 chars (1 sms)     912 views       Quotes

more Quotes SMS Messages

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.
Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.
No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.
The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.
People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.
Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.
Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.
You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves