Quotes About Dialogue

Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

It's important that the art forms communicate, whether it's the dance program with the jazz program or the classical program with the opera program, that these conversations becomes fluid.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But

it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself

My one quarrel is with words.

If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks! -Ann Atwater

We meet from time to talk and argue…about what we as artists can do, how we can express the anguish for the moral situation we find in this country, but not as civil rights pleaders.

So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books.

A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start. (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)

Hugo?' 'Millicent?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes. Is that you?' 'Yes.' Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking. He began at once.

Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Jamie likes to talk to people. He wants to know them and what they think. He believes that accurate information is essential for everyone: investors, employees, newspaper reporters.

make sure information is shared broadly and problems are uncovered and thoroughly discussed.

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

here to talk to Greg

They have been so much concerned with what they are going to say next that they do not keep their ears open. … Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.