Quotes About Dialogue

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

If we're not listened to, then that doesn't create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don't value it.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

I don't think it is wrong to have a bit of banter with refs. My Dad would always manage games by talking to players and so did I when I reffed.

My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.

I'm happy to talk to anybody but do it in the right manner.

I have always believed in the marketplace of ideas.

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you never consider but might find amazing if you did, how the details of contact, the eye movement and hand waves, the smiles of recognition, the catch-up lives that propel the early dialogue—how this becomes an energy that moves among the guests like a circulating angel, inspiring stories, rumors, flirtations and misconstrued remarks, basically the makings of human history, even

We yell and scold as a way of paying homage to each other's views. This is the burden of friendship between extremely high-strung individuals.

I think we ought to have our intercourse now.

He had a good vocabulary except when he was talking to someone.

There was another pause. We waited to learn if the dialogue was over. Then we set to eating again. We traded unwanted parts in silence, stuck our hands in cartoons of rippled fries. Wilder liked the soft white fries and people picked these out and gave them to him. Denise distributed ketchup in little watery pouches. The interior of the car smelled of grease and licked flesh. We traded parts and gnawed.

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

Face-to-face communication is inherently real-time and combines both verbal and nonverbal information.