Quotes About Dialogue

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

Even if I do know that in order to interact effectively with others I really need to listen to them, I may not have the skill.

Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood." "Begin

came into focus. Through continued calm, respectful, and specific communication, each of us in the room was finally able to see the other point of view. But when we looked away and then back, most of us would immediately see the image we had been conditioned to see in the ten-second period of time. I frequently use this perception demonstration in working with people and organizations because

Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Stephen Covey dijo "Muchos de nosotros no escuchamos con la intención de entender, escuchamos con la intención de responder". Aprende a escuchar.

Never let your opponent speak unilaterally.

T]he term 'I' … must … be used … in order for us to talk with one another. But it's not a very accurate term.

I think communication is so firsbern.

Muchos de nuestros descubrimientos pueden no ser de mucha utilidad, incluso puede que no sean concluyentes. Pero eso está bien. Lo que intentamos es iniciar una conversación, no tener la última palabra. Y eso significa que en las páginas que siguen puede encontrar unas cuantas cosas de las que discrepe. De hecho, nos decepcionaría que no las encontrara.

An opponent who feels his argument is ignored isn't likely to engage with you at all.

We are verbivores, a species that lives on words, and the meaning and use of language are bound to be among the major things we ponder, share, and dispute.

Rather, there is friction between the speaker's square peg and the listener's round hole, and that friction itself conveys information in a parallel stream.

If you have to silence people who disagree with you, does that mean you have no good arguments for why they're mistaken?

We are verbivores, a species that lives on words.

Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

shut me up and talk to me!

People think they think, but it's not true. It's mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare—just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

Stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: 'Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker's satisfaction.'" I have found this technique very useful, in my private life and in my practice. I routinely summarize what people have said to me, and ask them if I have understood properly.