Quotes About Dialogue

Patience and Impatience are having tea discussing Time. The conversation goes on endlessly.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

Come now. let us reason together.

A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.

What are you doing here? she asked. It seems that you ask me that every time we meet, he said, and I always have the same answer. I wish to talk to you.

There is something you do with dialog that makes it sound more like our talk than our talk does.

to talk to Léon about it, I can see

The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.

I have never been very good at dealing with the police. I always come off as a smart-ass, and whenever I claim to be innocent, not only am I generally not believed, but it tends to make my questioner lose his patience. I also have a special gift for creating misunderstandings in the dialogue. This tends to stoke the already simmering anger of the police, whose sole aim is to pry loose a nice solid confession and go home, happy to have earned their salary.

you begin a statement by saying, "I'm curious, (fill in with your question)", then the person will be more likely to openly share.

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