Adversarialism Quotes & Sayings

We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols. — William Thurston

This is bigger than a fart in a bathtub, you know. — John Marsden

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism. — Stephen Covey

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over. — Rick Pitino

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. — Jim Rohn

Oh I don't think making him feel welcome will be a problem at this school. Making him feel like he's not being stalked, however, may be a challenge. — Brittany DeLys

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. — Simone Weil

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement. — Patti Digh

To escape from the weight of the world, I leave my body where it is, in conversation or at dinner, and walk through a series of winding streets to a house standing back from the road. — Jeanette Winterson

Well, I'm a professional. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I'm going to say, 'ouch.' If I pinch your right nipple, you're going to say 'ouch.' A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant. — Shaquille O'Neal

In the darkness they wondered if they
could do it, and knew they had to try
to do it. — Mary Oliver

I'm on a shoppin spree to get whatever is in store — Drake

I have found many organizations that develop as many as three of the dimensions - they may have good service criteria, good economic criteria, and good human relations criteria, but they are not really committed to identifying, developing, utilizing, and recognizing the talent of people. And if these psychological forces are missing, the style will be a benevolent autocracy and the resulting culture will reflect different forms of collective resistance, adversarialism, excessive turnover, and other deep, chronic, cultural problems. — Stephen R. Covey