Quotes About Dialogue

In other words Yates had remembered the lesson of his first great master, Fitzgerald—namely, that people rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue is a matter of catching one's characters "in the very act of giving themselves away.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

Directors need to be happy constructively questioning and criticizing each other,

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

La libertad de expresión lleva consigo cierta libertad para escuchar

The savages must come to us,

People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument.

The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground, even with your opponents, especially with your opponents...You don't have to agree on everything if the one thing you do agree on is important enough.

The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground - even with your opponents...especially with your opponents.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.

But you know what's interesting, Ray?" "No, Fester, why don't you tell me what's interesting?

Hey, Krinsky," Myron said. Krinsky barely nodded. Mr. Loquacious. Myron

Win's phone rang. He picked it up and said, "Articulate. Okay, put it through." Two seconds later he handed the phone to Myron. "For me?" Myron asked. Win gave him flat eyes. "No," he said. "I'm handing you the phone because it's too heavy for me." Everyone

We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end.

Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves.

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Would You Speak to Jesus If You Met Him on the Street? Reverend Moorehead doubted that you could even if you wanted to, because Jesus probably spoke Aramaic.)

Shut up, Jean Louise. I'm trying to make you see his motive:

For good conversation you only need one other person who shares your passion and cares about what you care about.

groups of people gathered around an issue for which they care deeply will find the way–provided they had the (safe) space in which to explore.

It takes Burnett only a moment to figure out what I'm talking about, but says, 'I'm on it. What's wrong with your voice?' 'I'm eating biscuits.' 'You're eating biscuits?' Burnett is obviously still a bit sleepy, since I couldn't have made myself much clearer. 'Yes, sir. I'm eating biscuits. Stolen chocolate digestives. Oh, also, we're going to need some ambulances.' 'Ambulances?' 'Sir, is this a new game where you repeat everything I say?

Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.

Civilization is communication," the doctor said. "That which is not expressed doesn't exist.