Quotes About Dialogue

Relationships last longer if the two of you know how to communicate well with each other.

I will send word,' he says, behind her, and she starts. She had almost forgotten he was there. What was it he had been saying? 'Send word?' she repeats. 'To whom?' 'To you.' 'To me? Why?' She gestures down at herself. 'I am here before you.

Stephen Covey's sixth habit of highly successful people, "Seek first to understand—then to be understood," applies to highly successful business developers.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

One day I will become a bird and unsheathe my existence out of my void. When the two wings burn I'll near the truth and reincarnate from ash. I am the dialogue of dreamers. I turned away from my body and my self to complete my first journey toward meaning, but meaning burned me and disappeared. I am absence. The heavenly and the expelled from "Mural

I love talking to you, even if I have nothing to say.

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

The art of conversation lies in listening

Wir wollen reden zu dieser Welt, kein halbes, sondern ein ganzes Wort, ein mutiges Wort, ein christliches Wort.

a public event designed to be an interfaith dialogue between Muslims and Christians. Three preachers walked out in protest when Malcolm criticized the wealth of some African-American churches and the poverty of their worshippers.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

It is important to realize that fights and interviews are two-way energy exchanges.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?

He called St. Vincent back and asked if he

You're threatening me?" "I'm not threatening, I'm articulating," Palmer said.

Hickory clicked something to Dickory in their native tongue; Dickory clicked back. Hickory responded, and Dickory replied, it seemed a bit forcefully. And then, God help me, Hickory actually sighed.

that was less about the fundamental nature of the visions than the fact Gianni kept interrupting Chen, and she was sick of it.

Hazel used his trick. They got no starfish there? They got no ocean there said Doc. Oh! said Hazel and he cast frantically about for a peg to hang a new question on. He hated to have a conversation die out like this. He wasn't quick enough. While he was looking for a question Doc asked one. Hazel hated that, it meant casting about in his mind for an answer and casting about in Hazel's mind was like wandering alone in a deserted museum. Hazel's mind was choked with uncataloged exhibits. ...

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks

This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference.

Then it occured to me that the elicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words.