“We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.” HelpingTechnologyDemocracyShareStyleInformationSkillsConflictAddictionCommunicateVisualsResolutionChemicalsConflict ResolutionCommunicators Author:David Berman
“Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.” WaySometimesSeemsDoubtStyleConflictCleverNo DoubtPretentiousPersonal Style Author:Jon Landau
“I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series, of course, was about the conflict between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz developed a system of metaphysics called monadology, which looked pretty weird at the time and was promptly buried by Newtonian-style physics.” TryingRunningCoursesAttentionStyleConflictSeriesPhysicsCyclesBuriedMetaphysicsNewtonBaroque Author:Neal Stephenson
“Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.” NeedsTryingTwoCausesBehindsStyleBandConflictMusicianJazzSingersTunesSongwritersSinger SongwritersBallads Author:Van Morrison
“In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.” WantIdeasStyleConflictOrganizationMeetingsListsGet UpAgreement Author:Howard Rheingold
“The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.” KnowsShouldWarCharacterTodayDifferencesPartyStruggleMankindStyleDevelopmentConflictDoomedQuarrelsAtomic War Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.” PeopleGivingTogetherValuesBeliefNationsAttitudeMoralStyleIntegrityConflictCapacityEndureDespiteToneTensionDaily LifePlagueRise AboveFiberShared Values Author:John W. Gardner