Quotes About Dialogue

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.

Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.

It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them.

We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn't it be easier to just call them conversations? That's really what they are.

The cheapest route to a new opportunity is conversation.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt from Obscurity and nourished with Care, improved with Art and corrected with Application. Labour and Time are the Instruments in the perfection of all Work.

Nothing can guarantee that the community will not become a monster—especially if it does not put its own presuppositions at risk and listen to the other

Mutual understanding can never be attained by "communications down," can never be created by talking. It can result only from "communications up." It requires both the superior's willingness to listen and a tool especially designed to make lower managers heard.

Listen first, speak last.

Cheryl: When you don't understand what someone said, remember, it's your job to ask them to explain.

When you added dialogue to your piece, I really understood how Amy [the character] felt." This is not so much praise as a causal statement—you did this [added dialogue], with this consequence [I understood how the character felt]. Causal process statements are at the heart of building agency.

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.