Quotes About Dialogue

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

Because unity in faith is a gift, dialogue can never be a search for compromise, never have as a goal a negotiated agreement like a business contract.

The primary means of achieving unity, after prayer for the conversion of all of us to the ways of the Lord, is to engage in dialogue. Genuine dialogue means each party brings the fullness of their beliefs and shares them, trusting the dialogue partner to respect them.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

habit of speaking in paragraphs.

Communication requires two things, expression and reception.

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

What's the point of quoting the Bible to people who don't believe it's true" Dad would say.

War is young men dying and old men talking

Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Explain what's happening (communication). In

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

Listening and trying to understand the needs of those we would communicate with seems to me to be the essential prerequisite of any real communication. And we might as well aim for real communication.

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.