Quotes About Dialogue

A more substantive potential use of words to enhance our lives is the lost art of conversation.

We need to talk to the person, not about them.

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with us.

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with

the strength of a democracy is not how well we agree but how well we disagree.

gentle interrogation. "Tell

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

I was having a race conversation in my head.

You cannot be sure that you are right, unless you understand the arguments against your view better than your opponents do. by Milton Friedman (p.10)

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

It was his way to ask many questions when he wanted to know someone's mind. Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions.

That's what she said.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Because we are in the same business, he didn't have to explain that "typo" is short for "typographical error." If Helena had come out, we would have had to stop using our industry lingo so that she could understand us

A man asked for an early meal. His wife said: "It is for supper.

No, Ernie, says Agata, there's no plot, we're only women talking.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.

Quand on sait entendre, on parle toujours bien.

The way of Friends is to think quietly and to listen. We ask the question, we consider how the answer is made by different people, we ask again, answer again, change our minds; we reach an understanding. The Meeting evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, not by the weight of the majority, but by the capacity of individual human beings to comprehend one another.

That often happens when you plan a story to tell someone, because while you are planning it you write all the dialogue yourself – theirs as well as yours – and then, of course, they don't know their part.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Refusing to hear an opposing point of view is a sign of weakness, not strength.