Quotes About Dialogue

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

bavarder avec eux… Enfin, tu vois.

Cualquier persona que haya conseguido tal integración de sistemas operativos es alguien que en lugar de posicionarse a favor de uno u otro hemisferio cerebral y de sus capacidades específicas, ha buscado modos para que ambos hablen entre sí, para que dialoguen y pueda así emerger una nueva realidad. Esta nueva realidad es mucho más que la suma de las partes.

Yo hablo con ella como si hablara conmigo mismo.

I still think that our best dialogue was between our glances.

Talking turned out to be Louise's talent. If talking were a sport, Louise would've been a marathoner.

That dialogue pictures Julius arriving at the gates of heaven on a great military charger and being rejected by St. Peter, who cannot be made to understand how the vicar of Christ could have turned from humility, service, and devoted spiritual life to warfare and diplomacy.

The phrase "convicted civility" refers to a balance between holding convictions as a Christian and communicating those convictions with civility.

We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.

Mark Twain once said, "Most conversations are monologues in the presence of witnesses.

If someone can't or won't listen to you, get him to listen to himself.

Questioning works better than telling. That's why Will didn't tell Evan, "Don't let your friends get you into trouble." Instead, he asked questions that made Evan think, "Who's likely to get into trouble, and what should I do if it happens?" In other words, Will didn't talk down to Evan, or talk at him. Instead, the two talked side by side emotionally as well as physically.

4. Talk with the irrational person, leaning into his crazy by entering his world calmly and with intention.

When I ask these people questions that let them open their minds and express their intelligence, I witness a peculiar phenomenon: These hurried professionals, whose most valuable resource is time, hunger to spend more of that time with me.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. —JOHN MARSHALL, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, 1801–1835

generally, the less knowledgeable one appears, the more forthcoming and revealing the other party will be.

Some people say that I talk too fast, but I think it's just that they listen too slowly.

Much like Ros's novels, then, The Room is remarkable for the way it seems to expose the absurd artifices of its form by getting everything about that form so flagrantly wrong. Wiseau's failure to achieve the clichés he seems to aim for at the level of plot, dialogue, and performance eventually starts to look like aesthetic subversion.

I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

I sometimes surprise myself when one of my characters says something I would never say.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication