C Quotes
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“Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.”
“Conflict is the soul of literature.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“Conflict is the very essence of life.”
Source: The Album
“Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.”
“Conflict isn't negative, it just is.”
Source: The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art
“Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.”
“Conflict Of Expectation Is The Seed Of Misery In Relationships”.”
“Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't.”
Source: Just Dial 911 for Assistance
“Conflict resolution is an art, only non-egoistic people can master it.”
Source: Quantraz
“Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.”
Source: Rivers of London
“Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.”
“Conflict through the ages has not been between opposites, but versions of the same state of mind: the desire to control others.”
Source: I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom
“Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.”
“Conflict was what had mended their hearts, it was in their nature to be discordant before finding harmony.”
Source: Bloodlines and Shrines
“Conflict within is natural: just as gods quarrel in mythic tales, it’s normal for different parts of you to disagree or clash.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.”
“Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.”
“Conflicted creatures, that’s what we [parents] are — we give birth, without knowing to what; we educate, without knowing whom; we must answer for it, without knowing how; and we can give up neither our power nor our fear.”
“Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.”
Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860
“Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.”
Source: Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con
“Conflicting thoughts create doubt and chaos, a peaceful mind is filled with certainty.”
Source: Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness
“Conflicts acquire a life of their own until the combatants forget what, it is, that they are fighting about. They are just engaged in combat.”
“Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.”
“Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.”
“Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.”
“Conflicts are, of course, an inevitable part of life. When dissension arises and testosterone runs high, our instinctual response is to defend our point of view by proving the other party wrong. But as with fighting back unnecessarily, this stubborn approach rarely leads to resolution and often fans the flames of conflict.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.”
“Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!”
Source: Gleanings Among The Sheaves
“Conflicts can convert into ideas when we understand each other’s perspectives.”
Source: Quantraz
“Conflicts create friction. Use the friction only to create a spark to trigger an idea, not burn relationships.”
Source: Quantraz
“Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.”
“Conflicts in relationships are as natural as breathing. While conflicts lead to healthy relationships, they can throttle us if they are not addressed at the appropriate time.”
“Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.”
“Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.”
“Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.”
“Conform or die. That was his motto. I am oddly doing bits of both, each half-assedly.”
Source: An Unkindness of Ghosts
“Conform to no inkling ancestral,
Conform to no habit historical.
Conform to no force external,
Submit only to love universal.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.”
Source: The Art of War
“Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.”
“Conformarse es someterse y vencer es conformarse, ser vencido. Por eso cualquier victoria es una grosería. Los vencedores pierden siempre todas las cualidades de desaliento con el presente que los llevaron a la lucha que les dio la victoria.”
“Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.”
Source: The splendid outcast: Beryl Markham's African stories
“Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.”
“Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.”
“Conformists are boring. Artists are interesting. That's the difference between a wannabe writer and a real writer.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Conformists die, but heretics live forever.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...
“Conformists, let go of this chapter.
The forests, will echo with laughter.”
“Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.”
“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”
“Conformity eats away individuality.”