Quotes About Dialogue

I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.

He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.

What kind of trees are those?" she asked Milo. "Green," he said, and that's how the conversation ended.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.

Without real exchange, you can't create knowledge.

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.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Listen more than you talk.

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.