Quotes About Dialogue

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.

I think supporting casts in comics are missing. I think a lot of the time in comics, all we have are people in costumes talking to other people in costumes, superheroes talking to superheroes and supervillains, and that's it.

I feel very lucky to be part of our Labour family in Ilford North, where we conduct our debates in an inclusive and supportive manner.

The East-West Center directly supports the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue with countries in the region.

I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

No one works harder at inspiring athletes all over the world than our team at Nike. Creating those experiences requires an amazing amount of energy, a steady flow of big ideas to excite and surprise people, and a constant dialogue that connects us on a personal level.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?" Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?" "Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word." Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it.

Anybody home, son?" "You ought to know." "How would I know?" "Go — yourself." "That's how people get false teeth." He showed me his in a tight grin.

Diálogo cínico não é humor espirituoso.

Fejezzük be ezt a beszélgetést. Túlságosan sok benne a felkiáltójel.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Just as thinking is the soul speaking to itself (Theaetetus 189e), forcing itself to articulate its reasons and exposing those reasons to evaluation as if to different aspects of its own self, so we enlarge our thinking by bringing others into the dialogue.

The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.

If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can't talk about it, which means that you can't come together to address it, let alone change it.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

She drew her hand away from beneath his and said, "Heard…in what sense?" "In the sense of I heard," he said. "He rang me. That's right. I was in bed and the phone rang and when I picked it up, it was Chris.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

Seeking first to understand isn't about who's right or wrong; it is a philosophy of effective communication.