#conflict

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#concepts #conflicting #cooperation #encounter #grips

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#actually #background #conflict #darker #day

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#attention #bringing #chance #child #competition

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#films #fought #generation #global #his

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter. ↗

— Terri Apter

#daughter #dose #double #empathy #good

Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#been #conflict #crucible #job #look

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth? ↗

— Daoud Hari

#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#conflicts #focus #issues #more #personalities