Quotes About Dialogue

How Do You Get Past a Person's Curiosity Filter?

Once we understand our customers' problems, we'll have a better idea how to talk to them in such a way that they engage.

That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

The way we reach decisions today, the manner in which we dialogue about issues, and the political correctness we see all around us are dehumanizing expressions of the anti-intellectualism in modern society when it comes to broad worldview issues. Rhetoric without reason, persuasion without argument are manipulation

when people learn what they believe and why, they become bold in their witness and attractive in the way they engage others in debate or dialogue.

Poetry in here keeps the conversation open between the living and the dead, the misunderstood and the wise, the imprisoned and the free. Koestler Voices Vol. 3

We needed fish, really, but I could not speak Fish.

They bustled around chatting. It was the first time I listened closely, and I was astonished at how much they had to say, the passion with which they repeated the same thing in ten different ways so as to avoid noticing, in fact, that they had absolutely nothing to say to each other for ages, but human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity

We have no future any more. All we can do is entertain ourselves by conversing.

Talking is existing.

Do you remember . . . ? someone's always asking and someone always does.

Do you remember?' Someone's always asking and someone else, always does

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

J'accepte que ce que je dis n'est pas toujours ce qui est entendu et que ce que j'entends n'est pas forcément ce qui est dit.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Nice return, Andrew," Logan said as they

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Lately," said Hubbard, "I have been considering language to be the enemy.

Children do best when parents are neither overly strict nor overly permissive, providing firm structure but also allowing for dialogue, respectful conflict, and compromise.

Which means that living things are involved in an open dialogue with the universe, a free exchange of information and influence that unites all life into one vast organism that is itself part of an even larger dynamic structure. There is no escaping the conclusion that the basic similarity in structure and function are ties that bind all life together and that man, for all his special features, is an integral part of this whole.