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Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because Ithink, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Don''tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Youdon''t have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn''t have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

If you get to thinking you''re a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else''s dog around.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn''t have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Whetherit''s the best of times or the worst of times, it''s the only time we''ve got.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

A goodmanager doesn''t try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you''re the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that''s healthy.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.