Quotes About Dialogue

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

if there be some points which correspondence can never settle, but which can be made clear by conversation in two minutes, at other times just the opposite is the case: an objection clearly stated in writing, a doubt well expressed, which elicits a direct and positive reply, helps things along more than ten hours of oral intercourse!

History is an argument without end.

El que habla, siembra. El que escucha, recoge.

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme.

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations on the same theme.

I hope that what you are after is an exchange … not a reaction.

Apakah gunanya pendapat kalau hanya untuk diketahui sendiri?

Mengobrol adalah suatu pekerjaan yang tak membosankan, menyenangkan, dan biasanya panjang-panjang.

Every time Burundians sat together, they found lasting solutions to the problems which opposed them

Prithee, John, why do you not speak for yourself?

You have to remember, dear interlocutors, and never forget: that the ultimate goal of negotiating is convergence- not unconditional surrender.

There is no wise response to a foolish remark.

Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Well thank you, Trudi," Now falsely modest again. "But I Don't think I won the scene." "Well, of course, you did," dismissing his protest. "You had all the dialogue but," she warns him. "In our big scene tomorrow, that's another story. So watch out.

Jules starts to 'Jimmie' him.

You can't file a conversation.

That, in brief, is the problem—criticism as the first step in a discussion stops the discussion and is therefore, generally the last step as well. It is an entirely different matter if I hear the other person first, understand what she is trying to do, then talk with her about better ways to do it.

Our egos are often so hell-bent on getting our own ideas out that we can hardly wait for others to finish talking. What others are saying becomes a terrible interruption in what we are trying to say. In the process, we not only fail to understand what others are saying; we do not even hear them out. De Bono's description of parallel thinking aptly describes the kind of flow that is possible in a conversation where different ideas are allowed and encouraged:

It is hard to listen while you were talking.

She had to admit this journalist was one of her trickier customers, and his interviews nearly always ended with the same argument, since he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question and when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it.

you had said those things to him, you understand, you would have heard some truths in return. If you had been frank you would have elicited frankness.