Quotes About Dialogue

What is called 'offence to a community' is more often than not actually a struggle within communities.

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

For rhetoric as such is not rooted in any past condition of human society. It is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic, and is continually born anew; the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights by partners in thought.

Our elders told us this was the best way to deal with white people. Be silent until they get nervous, then they will start talking. They will keep talking, and if you stay silent, they will say too much. Then you will be able to see into their hearts and know what they really mean. Then you will know what to do." "I imagine it works," I said.

En suma: si decía que estaba solo, no era más que porque no tenía con quién hablar.

As individuals, we must begin to pay attention to our attention (self-awareness); as teams, we must begin to converse about our conversations (dialogue); as enterprises, we must begin to organize our organizing (networks of networks: eco-systems); and as eco-systems, we must begin to coordinate our coordinating (systems of awareness-based collective action, or ABC).

A rapprochement between empirical science and religious experience would in my opinion be fruitful for both.

The important thing is what he talks about, not whether he agrees with it or not.

Language must be taken in a wider sense than speech, for speech is only the outward flow of thoughts formulated for communication

Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.

A rapprochement between empirical science and religious experience would in my opinion be fruitful for both. Harm can result only if one side or the other remains unconscious of the limitations of its claim to validity.

not actually shades of green. They had discussed the fact

I'll pay attention to what you say if you pay attention to what I say—regardless of its value.

dry cleaner's. She'd been wanting to talk with

A los muertos nos fastidia tener que hablar con los vivos. Si no fuera porque tenemos muchas historias que contar, nunca lo haríamos

Conditional rejections are not rejections - they are discussions.

listen so intently that people bring forth their own wisdom.

You talked to me, but you didn't. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

Mi gente sabe cómo luchar contra los mejores, pero con palabras, con montones de palabras.

to fight with the best of them, but with words, with lots and

You make a habit of talking to statues?" "Yes. And pigeons. Now, are you going to ask?