Quotes About Dialogue

It is impossible to establish a real dialogue with someone who does not consider you an equal (Fifty Shades of Feminism)

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don't usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I'm saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Come now, let us reason together.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Ricky Let's drop it. Let's ecks-nay on the becks-nay. Ig-pay atlin-lay. Bobby Will you ut-shay your outh-may Ricky Ayn-saying-ay Bobby I don't know, you're doing it wrong, I don't understand what the hell you're saying. Ricky Onch-pay oo-bay ... ay-bay ay-way Bobby Ut-shay your ace-fay, asshole-ay. Ricky Did you hear that Did you hear what he said Whadaya think of that

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Silence may be golden," I said, "but it won't win many arguments. If you have something to say, don't keep your ideas locked up; unclench your jaws and set those thoughts free. And don't be afraid to interrupt, because that may be the only way you are going to be heard.

Rather than think critically, we seek out people who share our opinions and who encourage us to ridicule the ideas of those whose convictions and perspectives clash with our own. At many levels, contempt has become a defining characteristic of American politics. It makes us unwilling to listen to what others say—unwilling, in some cases, even to allow them to speak.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

you out here," Ridge said.

She held up her hands. "Stop, please. Allow me to hear one shocking sentence at a time.

I don't often do this much talking for so little reason, McGee. You have a nice touch. You're an eager listener. You smile in the right places. It puts people on. And, of course, you haven't leveled with me.

Kuulamine nõuab kahte poolt. Ühte, kes annab, ja teist, kes võtab, mida antakse.

Effective communication is not someone else's job, nor does it begin with being understood. Rather, it's about understanding the other person.

What did you talk

Why don't you suggest a figure?" he said. "I mentioned five, now it's your turn.

documentación necesaria. —Me parece muy bien, pero está hablando con la persona equivocada.

I only debate my equals. All others, I teach.

Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this separation may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to concede to black men or that he wants to help black men overcome their blackness.

I believe that before we can truly dialogue with one another we must first perceive intellectually, and then at the profoundest emotiomal level, that there is no Other - that the Other is simply Oneself in all the significant essentials. This alone is the key that can unlock the prison of culture. It will neutralize the poisons of the stereotype that allow men to go on benevolently justifying their abuses against humanity.

Every misunderstanding has at its center a breakdown of language.

I'm not an anti-feminist! Of course you're not, Garp told her. They make everything so black and white. Of course they do, said Garp. That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them - or else you're their enemy. Yes, yes, Garp said. I wish I could talk.