Quotes About Dialogue

Answers are temporary things, Anne", he had said. "There will always be more questions." "And shall we dispense with our minds?" she had countered. "No", he said carefully. "Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

I know what I have said, but not what you have heard.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

millions of dollars have been spent over issues that could have been settled by men and women of good intentions

Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak hosted me at his residence for a particularly warm, elaborate, and meaningful dinner. He invited all of my friends in the U.S. government, as well as a few of my important informal outside advisors who had participated in developing the ideas of the Reset. Three years earlier, Kislyak and I had started our relationship with our fists up. But over the years, he had grown on me. We were very different people in so many ways, and yet I felt like we clicked. He

Words are gold, split and shared as coinage, small pebbles, emblems offered back and forth-given, received; given, received-expanding the vocabulary of the soul

TEACHER Next. I am afraid -- STUDENT I em afred -- TEACHER We are out -- STUDENT Wee are out -- TEACHER Of badgers. STUDENT Of badjurs. TEACHER Would you accept -- STUDENT Wud you accept -- TEACHER A wolverine -- STUDENT A wolver-eene -- TEACHER In its place?

Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.

Talk to a Dutch journalist for an hour. He has 38 questions.

When put to it, I can be an alright conversationalist. But I find openings are always tricky.

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

you don't know what he hears because he just talks.

The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking.

Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

Ljude možete pustiti da pri?aju naširoko, oni ?e uvek biti zainteresovani za sopstvenu pri?u, ali treba, ipak, usko?iti s vremena na vreme, re?i nešto, minimalno.

I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture but the actor in himself is nothing.

Bishop's brows went up. "Okay, fine. Yes, I followed you here. Better?" "Yes. Stalkery, but better." "I'm not stalking you." "Spoken like a true stalker." -- Bishop and Samantha, page 79

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.

Es el encanto de la conversación, de hablar por hablar, del hablar roto a interrumpido

Pues porque a la gente le gusta la conversación por la conversación misma, aunque no diga nada

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.