Quotes About Dialogue

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

I sat looking at her, completely lost for words; women say the damnedest things.

Their assemblies had taught the Athenians how to discuss all matters openly, with arguments for and against. This was good training in learning how to think.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

He and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the "No, I didn't; yes, you did" type—conversation which, although fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others.

One doesn't ask plain questions. There aren't such things.

Entä ellet sanoisi mitään?" ehdotti dekaani. "Etten sanoisi mitään? Hirvittävää. Olette järjiltänne." "Puhutteko te sitten aina, jos sopii kysyä?" tiedusteli Chapman. Risley sanoi, että asia oli niin. "Ettekö koskaan väsy puhumiseen?" "En koskaan.

Albert Camus, que en cierta ocasión dijo: «Un hombre con el que no se puede razonar es un hombre al que hay que temer.»

Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.

and Tell" and argue that not only do we value telling more than

How Does Asking Build Relationships?

The paradox is that the main inhibitor of useful telling is often our own failure to inquire in a way that makes it safe for others to tell us the truth, or at least to share all of what they know.

The answer runs counter to some important aspects of U.S. culture— we must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask.

What are you working on?" Because Ken was genuinely interested, the pair would end up in a long conversation that would be satisfying both technically and personally. Even when the company had over 100,000