Quotes About Dialogue

We had talk enough, but no conversation. —SAMUEL JOHNSON, THE RAMBLER (1752)

You are interested in hearing about how another person approaches things—his or her opinions and associations.

He came to talk to you," Jenny

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

Such a Zen dialogue is basically a contest, but it's really an anti-contest. It's a kind of reverse or paradoxical contest. It works like this: two people talk, and the first one who speaks from the ego loses. The one who wants to win is certainly going to lose.

We are not interested in dialogue for the sake of dialogue.

Because there is a problem that exists, the doors for communication between the two nations should not be closed. Japan always keeps our door for communication open. I'd like China to take the same attitude.

Try not to force your idea on someone, but rather think about it with him. If you feel you have won the discussion, that is the wrong attitude. Try not to win the argument; just listen to it.

Try not to force your idea on someone, but rather think about it with him. If you feel you have won the discussion, that also is the wrong attitude. Try not to win in the argument; just listen to it

Argue the point not the person.

That, Echo, is a bird." "A bird?" he repeated in disbelief. "Yes," Taylor said, joining them. "Why don't you talk to it, and see if it answers." Echo, still unmoving, watched the bird, then called, "Hello!" When the bird didn't answer, he added, "We want to talk to you!

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

That the two religions were engaged in a contested Passover–Easter dialogue at this formative moment is not in doubt. Even after the Council of Nicaea in 325, with Constantine himself present, separated out the two holidays and made sure that should they fall on the same day it would be the Jews who moved their Passover, that combative dialogue continued.

I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out." Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. " Can we help you, Alex? " a voice bellows through the speaker. "I'm bein' tortured." " I beg your pardon?

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.

Through good listening skills, comes success.

A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers.

I know that what's said is often less important than the tone of voice in which the words are spoken. There is music in dialogue, mysterious harmonies and dissonances that vibrate in the body like a tuning fork.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

I love the conversation between film and music.