Choosing Sides Quotes

• Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

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• When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Peace, Passion

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Leadership, Real Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Sides, Election, Inauguration

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• But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Giving Up, Reality

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from May 22, 2012

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• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  People, Enemy, Guests

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, People, Political

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• And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

  Dierks Bentley

  Football, Hockey, Want

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• Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.

  Dov Davidoff

  War, Color, Uniforms

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 20, 2011

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• It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America.

  Trevor Noah

  Country, America, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.

  James A. Michener

  Sports, Volleyball, Art

  James A. Michener (2014). “Sports in America”, p.601, Dial Press

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