Quotes About Dialogue

_It must have been_ are magical words that say to the _Other_, 'I understand how it was.

ANIMA Ma dimmi, eccellenza e infelicità straordinaria sono sostanzialmente una cosa stessa? […] NATURA Nelle anime degli uomini […] si può dire che l'una e l'altra cosa sieno quasi il medesimo: perché l'eccellenza delle anime importa maggiore intensione della loro vita; la qual cosa importa maggior sentimento dell'infelicità propria; che è come se io dicessi maggiore infelicità. ( Dialogo della Natura e di un'Anima )

I didn't know what to say in reply, so I simply nodded, which always works because the meaning is put into it by the person you are talking to.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Certainly there are some things which I can find out about you only, or best, through being told of them by you. The oculist has to ask his client what letters he sees with his right and left eyes and how clearly he sees them; the doctor has to ask the sufferer where the pain is and what sort of a pain it is; and the psychoanalyst has to ask his patient about his dreams and daydreams.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.

John Weakland, uno de los maestros de la Escuela de Palo Alto, afirma que el error que cometen con más frecuencia los seres humanos, y la raíz además de muchos problemas, es infravalorar o, por el contrario, sobrevalorar a los interlocutores y a sí mismos.

Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

Non s'impara qualcosa dagli altri che nelle conversazioni a due, dove colui che insegna si adatta alla natura dell'altro, rispiega, esemplifica, domanda, discute e non detta il suo verbo dall'alto.

Control the language and you control the argument.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

It was the first time I witnessed the ancient and modern magic of groups in which anyone may speak in turn, everyone must listen, and consensus is more important than time.

people in the same room understand and empathize with each other in a way that isn't possible on the page or screen.

learned: people in the same room understand and empathize with each other in a way that isn't possible on the page or screen.

wisdom they taught me: If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them.

Maybe U.S. policy makers should talk to taxi drivers.

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Laßt mir Luft, daß ich reden kann!