Quotes About Dialogue

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth

Dialogue is just two monologues clashing.

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

Your ability to respond is the way you are. Only your ability to act is connected with the outside world. Responsibility is not about talking, thinking, or doing. Responsibility is about being. That's the way life is—not an independent, self-contained bubble but a moment-to-moment dialogue with the universe. You don't have to work at making it that way. You just have to see it the way it is.

Responsibility is not about talking, thinking, or doing. Responsibility is about being. That's the way life is—not an independent, self-contained bubble but a moment-to- moment dialogue with the universe. You don't have to work at making it that way. You just have to see it the way it is.

Responsibility is about being. That's the way life is—not an independent, self-contained bubble but a moment-to- moment dialogue with the universe.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country—to clear the air of the racial mirages, clichés, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

To read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding of a book; nor hastily to give my assent to those who talk overmuch.

53. Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.

Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.

Yet because the Bible is a human product as well as sacred scripture, the continuing dialogue needs to be a critical conversation. There are parts of the Bible that we will decide need not or should not be honored, either because we discern that they were relevant to ancient times but not to our own, or because we discern that they were never the will of God.13*

The result: the monarchical model of biblical authority is replaced by a dialogical model of biblical authority. In other words, the biblical canon names the primary collection of ancient documents with which Christians are to be in a continuing dialogue.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

No reply is in itself a reply.

Who is this Fuck?" says Abraham Lincoln. "Why is he talking to this Fuck? That is not the name of anyone here.

Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When

Sir," she said, "you are no gentleman!" "An apt observation," he answered airily. "And, you, Miss, are no lady.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?