"Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it."

-- David Graeber

#Hate Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Agreement Quotes

“People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.”
“Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.”
“Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.”
“I don't even think any stimulants really help writing. You talk to most guys and they say, "Hey. I wrote this." And they're out of their head or they had a few beers or a bottle of whiskey. You wake up the next morning, it's usually pretty crap. But you know Dylan Thomas wrote some great poetry. Brendan Behan. You never know but ultimately I'd say you have to get up early in the morning and you're usually sober when you write your good stuff; it's hard work. So alcohol, keep it for chilling out, fun, and having a good time. Not for work.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.”
“I had an appreciation for clothes and style starting at a young age, my mom was always very fashionable and I loved playing dress up in her closet. So I think my passion for design was always there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.”

Source : "Stoker director Park Chan-wook: 'In knowing yourself, you can liberate yourself'". Interview with Phil Hoad, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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