Quotes About Dialogue

To speak to someone without reactions would be like speaking to a brick wall.

even if you follow these steps, sometimes people either aren't willing to engage or not good at opening up themselves. You can blast past this by using forms of elicitation, in which you put forth a topic or question in a way that a person will feel compelled to engage or elaborate. These take the form of prompting the person to reply to your recognition, encouraging mutual complaining, assisting your naiveté, and correcting your incorrect assumption or information.

With so much focus on how to extract what you want from other people, what's been lost is the seemingly simple revelation that conversation should actually be fun and enjoyable.

there is no such thing as too much communication.

That's the secret of this planet, Todd. Communication, real and open, so we can finally understand each other for once.

if you could just get people to talk, he believed, the most bitter antagonists could discover common ground.

I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.

No, no me molesta que me lo preguntes —repuso el anciano—. Siempre que a ti no te moleste que no te conteste.

Eventually, Bast spoke up. "May I ask a question, Reshi?" Kote smiled gently. "Always, Bast." "A troublesome question?" "Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind.

I don't wonder why they talk," I said. "I wonder what they say.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

the concept of scaffolding to investigate teacher questions as 'mediational tools within the dialogue between the teacher and students' (p. 184). As we saw in Chapter 1 and Chapter 4, scaffolding refers to a process in which, for example, a more knowledgeable (or expert) speaker helps a less knowledgeable (or novice) learner by providing an interactional framework that the learner can build on.

Swain (2000) considers collaborative dialogues such as these as the context where 'language use and language learning can co-occur. It is language use mediating language learning. It is cognitive activity and it is social activity' (p. 97).

I would later make large detailed drawings of these humorously humiliating moments for Robert. He delighted in them, seeming to appreciate all the qualities that repelled or alienated me from others. Through this visual dialogue my youthful memories became his. I

As Uncle Victor had once told me long ago, a conversation is like having a catch with someone. A good partner tosses the ball directly into your glove, making it almost impossible for you to miss it; when he is on the receiving end, he catches everything sent his way, even the most errant and incompetent throws.

every time Mike challenged him he would have to think harder about what he believed in himself, and how could you ever learn anything if you only talked to people who thought exactly as you did?

jeu du regard,

Poets are everywhere now, but they talk only to each other

A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to sea… . In this way, too, poems are en route… . Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality.

At the most basic level, this book shows you how to ask questions that will get your customers talking.

el cine se mueve en un nivel más cercano a la música y a la pintura que a la palabra escrita. Por eso, las películas ofrecen la oportunidad de explicar conceptos y abstracciones sin la tradicional dependencia de las palabras. En dos horas y cuarto , hay tan sólo cuarenta de diálogo [en 2001: una odisea del espacio] Stanley Kubrick Entrevista al New York Times el 1 de abril de 1953

any Christian theologian who proposes a theology of religions but who doesn't know much about any other religion than her/his own should be regarded as highly suspicious, if not dangerous.

If Christians, in other words, only talk and never listen, they're not very good Christians.

the religions of the world have to come together, not to form a new, singular religion but to form a dialogical community of communities.