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Quotes About Dialogue

seem inclined to begin the conversation
~ David Baldacci
phone and answered
~ David Baldacci
with me to trace the call. And you
~ David Baldacci
scene upstairs with
~ David Baldacci
In the dialogue people should talk directly to one another, one to one, across the circle. Then the time would come, if we got to know each other a bit and could trust each other, when you could speak very directly to the whole group, or to anybody in it.
~ David Bohm
The thing that mostly gets in the way of dialogue," he says, "is holding to assumptions and opinions, and defending them." This instinct to judge and defend, embedded in the selfdefense mechanisms of our biological heritage, is the source of incoherence.
~ David Bohm
if people are to cooperate (i.e., literally to "work together") they have to be able to create something in common, something that takes shape in their mutual discussions and actions, rather than something that is conveyed from one person who acts as an authority to the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority.
~ David Bohm
As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens to bite his tongue.
~ David Eddings
I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.
~ David Foster Wallace
Booboo, we've been over this. I can't be asleep if we're talking.
~ David Foster Wallace
It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Ursúa y Castellanos hablaron hasta que la noche azul llena de estrellas cubrió las tierras bajas de la sierra. Todavía a medianoche, cuando en el campamento buena parte de los soldados dormían y sólo los guardias vigilaban en los pasos altos, seguía junto a la fogata el rumor inacabable de ese diálogo, como de dos náufragos que acabaran de llegar otra vez al mundo, porque no hay gran amistad que no comience por un largo intercambio de historias.
~ William Ospina
Listen to many, speak to a few.
~ William Shakespeare
Words, words, words.
~ William Shakespeare
What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.
~ William Shakespeare
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
~ William Shakespeare
CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend? CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you. CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot speak your england.
~ William Shakespeare
Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys? Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French What is his name. Boy- Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele? French Soldier- Monsieur le Fer. Boy- He says his name is Master Fer. PISTOL- Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him: discuss the same in French unto him. Boy- I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
~ William Shakespeare
What do you read, my lord? Words, words, words.
~ William Shakespeare
Read it you, sirrah.
~ William Shakespeare
Não defenda suas ideias, incentive as críticas e recomendações.
~ William Ury
you understand," Matt said.
~ William W. Johnstone
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
~ Winston Churchill