Quotes About Dialogue

I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me.

If we conceive of free speech as promoting the search for truth—as the metaphor of "the marketplace of ideas" suggests—we should be troubled whether that search is hindered by public officials or private citizens. The same is true of democratic justifications for free speech. If the point of free speech is to facilitate the open debate that is essential for self-rule, any measure that impairs that debate should give us pause, regardless of its source.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

The great treasure that interreligious dialogue among the world religions could unlock is to enable people to get to know and love other religions and the people who practice them. The

The thinkers and works of the past are studied here not as dated museum pieces or objects of antiquarian curiosity; they are confronted as powerful voices that challenge us to join in searching debates. The point is not to learn about these thinkers and texts, but from them.

Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important values associated with the dialogue that attends our system of checks and balances. The term "parliamentary reform" should not be allowed to cloud the fact that the critics advance a highly pro-executive position that would seek a strong government primarily by undercutting the independence of Congress.

Isn't it obvious?" "Apparently not." "I'm not just writing about you," said Shane. "I'm writing to you.

Serge slammed the phone down. "All the women in my life! You try to be polite, but they still talk to you.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

We like to collaborate on everything, so we have no formal divisions on where we each like to focus, and we like to put our brains together on every aspect of a project. We just have a nonstop dialogue.

My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Most Hindi movies tend to dramatise events. They are very dialogue heavy. Characters don't speak like people normally do in real life.

I normally talk to my players about everyday situations, and there are not really any secrets.

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

Japan is prepared to break the shell of mutual distrust with North Korea and get off to a new start.

Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.

Guys say 'like' all the time, and no one notices it.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.