Quotes About Dialogue

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

In the context of a national dialogue, perhaps the only authorization required for "putting in your little two cents worth" is the constitutional provision for free speech. Moreover, the basis for the presumptions of dissent and counter-statement is the same as for popping off: the merest hint or suspicion that outrage is being committed against one's conception of actuality.

The Spanish chroniclers in Peru wrote that when the conquistador Pizarro met the Inka ruler Atahualpa, he handed him the Bible, explaining to him that this was the word of God. The Inka brought the volume to his ear, listened carefully die a few moments, then threw the holy book to the ground, exclaiming, "What kind of god is this that does not speak?

Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose.

Un piccol numero di vocaboli era il materiale di tanti discorsi.

An inter/view is an exchange of gazes, persons both seeing and listening to each other.

The interview is two things at once: a tool for research, and the opening of a narrative space.

The root meaning of the word dialogue is "to speak across," "to speak beyond." This suggests that the crucial element is space, both social and geo- graphic: the distance, the difference, the otherness between the two partners involved

The interview is not a question-and-answer session, but the offer of a narrative possibility

There is nothing wrong with requiring time to consider a question or an argument and you can gain it without appearing to be a dithering idiot. I might say, 'I've never considered that angle – can I give it some thought?' By praising the other person's ability to make me think, I increased his willingness to wait for an answer.

I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss.

Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say Gentlemen to the person with whom he is conversing.

We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.

I'll always be on the move for peace in the Korean peninsula. If necessary, I will fly straight to Washington. I will go to Beijing and Tokyo and, if the conditions allow, to Pyongyang as well.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.

I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.