Agreement Quotes - Page 27

• The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

  Monique Wittig

  Language, Social, Humans

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Honesty, Successful, Artist

  Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

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• Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.

  African Spir

  Order, Engagement, Upside Down

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 45), 1937.

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• I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

  Cheryl Hines

  Assistants, Confidentiality

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• The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.

  Bob Schwartz

  Doe, Dieting, Weight

  Bob Schwartz (1982). “Diets don't work”, Breakthru Publishing

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• A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

  Howard Raiffa

  Trying, Quests, Outsiders

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Book, Practice

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, 1980.

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• Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.

  Jay Lake

  Goal, Abuse, Needs

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• The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

  George W. S. Trow

  Powerful, Men, Adults

  George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.44, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

  Joan Didion

  Mean, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 25, 2011

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• One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Understanding, Cooperation

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• Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

  John Updike

  Emotional, Stories, Temperature

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• A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.

  Ivica Dacic

  Issues, Long, Finals

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• Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.

  Brian Behlendorf

  Real, World, Arguing

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• A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Mean, Fighting

  Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.171, Mehring Books

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• I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.

  Mitt Romney

  Sorry, Should Have, Numbers

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• I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

  Noah Baumbach

  Teenager, Divorce, Profound

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• Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.

  Gloria Steinem

  Humanity, News, Helping

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• Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

  William Blake

  Revolution, England, States

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.783, Univ of California Press

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• A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Acceptance, Rivers, Drawing

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• It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Law, Ideas, Mind

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

  Immanuel Kant

  Land, Numbers, Broken

  Immanuel Kant (1915). “Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication”

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• No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

  David Hume

  Perfect, Doubt, Society

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

  Vernon Howard

  Intelligent, People, Secret

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