Quotes About Dialogue

It will not be over until we talk

Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there.

the city," he said diplomatically.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.

Virginia Woolf had to ask herself "How can one weigh and shape dialogue till each sentence tears the shingles in the bottom of the reader's soul?

But if I find myself in company with other people, words at once make smoke rings - see how phrases at once begin to wreathe off my lips.

Engagement means involving individuals in the strategic decisions that affect them by asking for their input and allowing them to refute the merits of one another's ideas and assumptions.

Encouraging refutation sharpens everyone's thinking and builds better collective wisdom

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

I'm trying to elevate small talk to medium talk

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

The first rule of my speaking is: listen!

My first rule of conversation is this: I never learn a thing while I'm talking. I realize every morning that nothing I say today will teach me anything, so if I'm going to learn a lot today, I'll have to do it by listening. As

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

When you catch yourself saying things and doing things that indicate you expect the other person will know exactly what you mean and will do what you anticipate, take a minute and see if you actually asked for what you wanted. Chances are you never asked.

you talk 25 percent of the time, and they talk 75 percent.

This is where we "overtalk the ask." You begin explaining more about why there is a need for what you want without listening to their thoughts. If you don't know their thoughts, you guess what they are, and you jump in with long and lengthy explanations, qualifications, or negotiations, hoping you will convince the person to say yes.

De acuerdo, pues vuelve a hacerlo. Se me hace raro conversar con un zorro. -Dijo el hombre-bestia

lenguas de los pueblos con los que entabla

Look, do you want to come in? Because for someone who's not talking to me, you certainly seem to have a lot to say.

That's another story, replied my father.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.