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“The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.”

Order Lessons Conflict Weakness Chaos Resolve Invites Vacillation

Author:Rick Perry

“There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.”

Persons Space Conflict Chaos Phones Mood Makers Mail Drag Oxygen Visitors Interruptions Burglars Intruders Chasers

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.”

Conflict Authority Chaos Absence

Author:Danny Silk

“But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict”

Needs Accepting Practice Conflict Chaos Confusion

Book:The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Source: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

“Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.”

Ifs Soul Party Conflict Angry Chaos Circles Vicious Reconciliation Helplessness Posture Borderline Point Break Vicious Circles Contrition

Author:Theodore Millon

“America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we have done in the Middle East are contributing to a potential explosion region-wide. And if that explosion gets out of hand, we may end up being bogged down for many years to come in a conflict that will be profoundly damaging to our capacity to exercise our power, to address the problems implicit in this global awakening, and we may face a world in which much of the world turns away from us, seeks its own equilibrium, but probably slides into a growing chaos.”

“For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.”

Black My Own White Path Mines Conflict Chaos Rhythm Black And White Duality Prisms Vortex Unison Sphinx

Author:Austin Osman Spare

“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”

Life Success Change Work Keys Battle Conflict Constant Chaos Key To Success

Author:Phil Knight