Quotes About Dialogue

I never met a word I didn't love

Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.

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Their goal is to deepen our comprehension of the discussions themselves instead of justifying particular views involved in current debates.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.

you don't expect much, if you don't inquire in a way that respects the intelligence of the other person, you probably won't find many insights.

start these conversations with questions that seek understanding, not with accusations that seek submission

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

The Scriptwriter is the type of person who asks you a question, answers it himself, then walks away angry at what you said.

Ojalá hubiera otra forma de hacer esto - confesó Han. - Dowwpp - respondió el Wookiee.

Come on man, speak in English. For the benefit of the colonist? He's a decent man. Aren't they all at some level?

Say anything at all – I love the sound of your speech.

As one of the documents from a worldwide gathering of Dominicans states, "Dialogue is…a necessary mode of existence in a world of difference."8 Only through dialogue can we glimpse the beauty and deep insights of the world's spiritual traditions.

I love being talked down to, Rocket. It's my favorite thing." -Tony Stark

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

But I knew that we had really met, she the Catholic from Eastern Europe, I the Protestant from the West. There on the crowded tramway platform we had met as Christians.

The very foundation of interhuman discourse is misunderstanding. -Lacan, Seminar III, 184

You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their inspirations, and you fight to tell them well from a sense of indebtedness and thankfulness. The ambiguities, the contradictions, the complexities of your choices are always with you in your writing as they are in your life. You learn to live with them. You trust your need to have a dialogue about what you deem important.

Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.