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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Good Progress Honest Sign Often

A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

You People Effort Important

Disagreement is something normal.

Something Normal

At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire album over again with studio musicians. And I said I wouldn't do it, and they basically said, 'Well hey, look, it's going to go in the trash can.' That's the record business, you know.

Bruce Springsteen

Time Business You Great

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Beginning Thought Others Only

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Respect Great Generation Differences

You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think he'd be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement.

Mitch McConnell

Time You Smart Better

There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

Time Challenges Debate Country

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

People Start Nothing More Agreement

At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.

Victoria Osteen

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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

Victoria Osteen

Family You Friends Opinion

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

Bullying Conversation Lose Genuine

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

Bernard Williams

Best Light Important Something

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Provoke Should Writers

Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

Great Value Harmony Place

I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.

Myself Dogs About Neighbors

I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact.

Think Impact Something Human

If and when they have a disagreement or argument, and if they can't resolve it, happy couples default to trusting and forgiving rather than distrusting and begrudging.

Happy Argument Couples Than

Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

Julian Treasure

Democracy Understanding Important

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.

Lawrence Kohlberg

Integrity Honesty Great True

You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.

Lee Hsien Loong

Work Respect You People

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

Focus Way Thought Matters

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

Alfred P. Sloan

Time Decision Understanding Meeting

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

Social Media People Serious Media

I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.

Good I Am Down Someone

I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy, but maybe people see me, and they don't want to step out of line, or equate disagreement with stepping out of line with a writer they like.

Me I Am People Step

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