Quotes About Dialogue

you are the second man to-day that has used that expression to me.

He found out that those processes wrongly known as "monologues" are really dialogues of a special kind; dialogues in which one partner remains silent while the other against all grammatical rules, addresses him as "I" instead of "you", in order to creep into his confidence and to fathom his intentions; but the silent partner just remains silent, shuns observation and even refuses to be localized in time and space.

In 1960 an anecdote in the form of an imaginary dialogue circulated in the satellite countries of the East: 'Tell me, Comrade, what is capitalism?' 'The exploitation of man by man.' 'And what is Communism?' 'The reverse.

Wer klug ist, wird im Gespräch weniger an das denken, worüber er spricht, als an den, mit dem er spricht.

Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

By engaging with the person you're with. Which means, not thinking while they're speaking and not forming your answer as they are in the middle of asking the question. Engaging with the person means following carefully what they say, going for the full ride of their dialogue. So that you don't skip over a nuance by mistake. This is what'll keep you from zoning out, avoiding eye contact, looking at the wall like a freak, or sweating too much.

a man who spoke no English, who would argue that whole conversations could be sustained in that language with the use of a single word (Goddamn)

After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence: I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute. It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply.

The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say we have discovered the truth when we reach agreement.

Paul? Well, I see we have differing points of view. How – healthy. Why don't we sit and talk? Come

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than "What's up?

The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, creating in them a fear to speak or act. The great key to this communication is to learn to listen attentively with understanding to the other person's point of view creating an atmosphere of love and approval.

He can hardly dare to suggest anything if you thunder at him like that," said Odysseus. "Either you want him to speak or you want to terrify him into silence. You can't have both.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

Ä'hn ?i, múa nhiêu qúa?" "Ph?i roi, ch?c không có ngú?i m? dêm na?

There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.' 'I like to listen,' Stu said. 'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go.

They ought to make it a law that you have to get a license, or at least a learner's permit, before you're allowed to talk. Until you pass your Talker's Test, you should have to be a mute.

Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don't intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend.

This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson