Quotes About Dialogue

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

Communication is the universal solvent.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

No communication takes place until the other person feels heard

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Communication can only take place among equals.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Consensus demands communication.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Talk to people, not above them.