Quotes About Dialogue

the best way to learn about something is to talk about it

Without free speech there is no true thought.

When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening. Listening is paying attention. It's amazing what people will tell you if you listen.

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.

It takes careful observation, and education, and reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.

There is another, closely allied form of conversation, where neither speaker is listening in the least to the other. Instead, each is using the time occupied by the current speaker to conjure up what he or she will say next, which will often be something off-topic, because the person anxiously waiting to speak has not been listening.

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.

himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker's satisfaction.

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.

He suggested that his readers conduct a short experiment when they next found themselves in a dispute: "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.

Qué puedes hacer entonces si no se te da muy bien pensar, si no consigues ser dos personas al mismo tiempo? Es fácil. Habla.

The only time /no/ ever means /no/ in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.

To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time.

próxima vez que se encontraran en una discusión: «Detén la discusión un momento e introduce esta regla: "Cada persona puede decir lo que piensa solo después de repetir las ideas y sentimientos de la persona que acaba de hablar de forma minuciosa, con una formulación que esa persona apruebe"».

When you next find yourself in a dispute: 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.

information or had a chance to review it, as there's an excellent possibility that he'll say "no" to at least one of those questions, which gives him an easy exit ramp out of the encounter. The way to avoid this is to simply ask him if the conversation "rings a bell," to which he will almost always reply with a yes.

So, again, that's what's happening when you're directly on the straight line. You're the one doing all the talking, and your client is listening. And when you're off the straight line, but still inside the boundaries, right here and here"—I point to the spaces—"it's the prospect who's doing the talking, and you're doing the listening.

Para él el trato humano es comunicación de cerebro a cerebro, esto quiere decir, entre hombres, porque ¿quién va a saber lo que tienen en la cabeza las mujeres?

Ah, a literatura!... - exclamou. - Meu amigo, ler não é pensar a sós: ler é dialogar! Porém o diálogo da leitura é um diálogo platónico: o teu interlocutor constitui uma ideia. Contudo não se trata de uma ideia imutável: ao dialogares com ela, modifica-la, torna-la tua, chegas a acreditar na sua existência autónoma...

Dijalog je rodio ?utanje.

Ms. Heller," said the man, "if you can hear me, say something, will you?" "What do you want, I'm shouting!" Lauren said at the top of her voice. "Now I see it," one of the female voices said. "Like she's trying to talk. I don't know what she said." "I think she said 'Ow.

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own