Quotes About Dialogue

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

Weren't the question the man had wrong, it was his way of asking it.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening. Rumi, Mathnawi I: 1627

denial of the views and ideas of other people, cannot be the basis of any kind of agreement.

However confident Americans might be that their views and ideas will prevail, the absolute "denial of the views and ideas of other people, cannot be the basis of any kind of agreement.

The renowned Danish physicist then asked politely, "How is it going?" Robert replied bluntly, "I'm in difficulties." Bohr asked, "Are the difficulties mathematical or physical?" When Robert replied, "I don't know," Bohr said, "That's bad." Bohr

Why not amuse yourselves at our expense? Asia returns the compliment.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

Ik geloof niet dat de beste manier om een mening te bestrijden is om de uiting ervan te verbieden.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem. ~ A.A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh

My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson.

Interviewing people is hard.

I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication.

A lot of times, going into the interview, you have an idea of maybe what you want to talk about. And the people you are interviewing have an idea of what they want to talk about.

I could do interviews all day.

I always do my interviews face to face.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them.

Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

I am intrigued by women I have conversations with.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.