Quotes About Dialogue

Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

She has several imaginary conversations with him and two imaginary arguments.

I got the feeling there was going to be a whole lot more conversation once I was out of the room.

Interaction Design is the creation of a dialogue between a person and a product, system, or service. This dialogue is both physical and emotional in nature and is manifested in the interplay between form, function, and technology as experienced over time.

We don't always have the words. But we can talk around things.

Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.

In Warsaw in 1977 he made an unscheduled and highly symbolic visit to the head of Poland's Catholic Church, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, and advised Edward Gierek, the first secretary of the Polish Communist Party, to speak more often with the cardinal. "It's never too late" to become a believer, he told Gierek, skillfully exploiting the tension between Gierek's ancestral Catholicism and the atheism of Communist doctrine.

If you want to change people's minds, you've got to talk to their elephants.

And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

You may not agree, but you'll probably shift from Manichaean disagreement to a more respectful and constructive yin-yang disagreement.

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say ninety percent of the words. She says ninety percent of the words worth listening to.

tenait à bras-le-corps. Callsen prit la parole : « Bon, je pense que vous

It is not necessary to delegitimize, call out, or cancel your opponents. It is better, simply, to persuade them.

is not necessary to delegitimize, call out, or cancel your opponents. It is better, simply, to persuade them.

Understanding – religious understanding – comes from the willingness to be challenged.

Combat with these weapons is face to face, hand to hand, personal. When face-to-face combatants share a common tongue, complex speech occurs between them. The American Civil War was the last time in our own history when both sides spoke the same language.

I opened my mouth to speak – but before I could do so, the ghost gave its response. It was brief, pungent, and to the point. I passed it on. Lockwood started. 'Charming! Hold on – was that from you or the ghost?' 'The ghost, of course.' George whistled. 'I'm not sure I should write that down.

This is an interview, not a boxing match.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored.

What do you mean by that, Paul?" We are ending our sentences with names, which is the equivalent of fighters circling, looking to throw the first punch.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.