Quotes About Dialogue

We ought to talk. Had four words ever put more fear into the heart of men around the world? He'd not heard them before himself, but ancient gender memory recognized them well. He was in for it now.

No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more often than not they would give you a chance to press further, to crack the conversation open and scoop out what you needed to know.

Did you not understand me? You need me to speak in Ebonics?

She waited, letting the uneasy silence grow. No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more often than not they would give you a chance to press further, to crack the conversation open and scoop out what you needed to know.

Getting information out of interviewees, she had learned over the years, was sometimes like walking a large, reluctant cow: you had to turn the cow onto the right path while letting the cow believe it was doing the steering.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Polemik zekalar?n sava??ym??. Zekalar birbiriyle sava?maz.

All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

Was it the speciality of Mr and Mrs Lammle, or does it ever obtain with other loving couples? In these matrimonial dialogues they never addressed each other, but always some invisible presence that appeared to take a station about midway between them. Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions?

We have been indulging,'' [...] "in an intellectual evening.

Martin Scorcese, the film director, was once asked the secret to a good scene. "Put three people in a room," he said.

Consider one of the most useful verbs you'll ever see: To say. Novices often use different words to say said, especially when writing dialogue. So they say that a president argues, declares, and cajoles. A ballplayer stutters, barks, muses, and mumbles. A philosopher cogitates, elucidates, complains, and demurs. These synonyms disrupt the flow of ideas. Avoid that distraction; just say said. If someone says something interesting, you don't need to dress it up with synonyms.

Sometimes people will hear you better if you speak with a voice of compassion instead of authority. They long to be understood more than to be lectured.

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

He turned back to face them. 'I do make sense to you, don't I? I'm not just imagining that communication is taking place?

Don't surround yourself with like-minded people. You'll get limited or radicalized.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Double description is better than one.

Wed like to agree with you. He glanced at Arthur. We cant, however, Arthur said. For the moment, then, amicable disagreement and open minds.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

Dialogue still reigns supreme as a method for connection and conflict resolution.