Quotes About Discussion

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Where you read a book and when you read and with whom (as your fellow readers) can make a big difference!

I told them I wanted them to prepare by creating a list of discussion points to bring to our meetings. I wanted them to think about what they or the other managers in this room could do to improve the efficiency, productivity, customer service, cash flow, margin of errors, corporate culture, rate of employee turnover, employee morale, and, most important, the company's profitability.

They sat at the head of a wide round table

For the moment we have not informed the Finnish people of them, as we have not wished to make the negotiations more difficult through public discussion.

she's happy to have a chat, but we haven't fixed up a time yet. And I called Janice," said Strike, "mainly because

Discuta como si tuviera razón, escuche como si estuviese equivocado».

Ibn Khaldun discussed the calculations of the ninth-century astrologer and polymath al-Kindi regarding the predestined end of the 'Abbasid dynasty.

We are the ones who are upset and we know that something is wrong. But instead of discussing our feelings, we attack others who can only guess at the real problem. Some guess better or question more directly than others. Some targets see what we are doing and reject or resent our assaults. Have you ever heard: "Don't take it out on me'? If so, you have been engaging in target practice.

A sensible way to begin a discussion of that greater good is to focus on the current conditions within the human family and on the state of the larger living world.

Typically, today, somebody in top management meets with a consultant, reads a book, gets excited about a new idea, and begins to talk about it.

What had I not to suffer from the voice of an irrational and cruel public opinion when this question was considered by the Legislative Commission? The mob of nobles Ã¢â'¬Â¦ began to suspect that these discussions might bring about an improvement in the position of the peasants.… I believe that there were not twenty human beings who reflected on the subject with humanity.

The team's diagnosis of a problem this morning centers on Sergio. The entire group has just spent time discussing Sergio's most recent review. On any given day, all employees are getting and giving feedback from multiple sources about how they're doing their jobs. Nothing in a formal review comes as a surprise. But it's also expected that individual reviews will be discussed with the entire team and with total candor. Niko

The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit was out.

In the privacy of their offices, members of Congress could be calm, thoughtful, and sometimes insightful and intelligent in discussing issues. But when they went into an open hearing, and the little red light went on atop a television camera, it had the effect of a full moon on a werewolf. Many would posture and preach, with long lectures and harshly critical language; some become raving lunatics.

Business is nothing more than a conversation:

going to see a man about a dog.

This is the meaning of what is euphemistically called *dialogue*: not to listen to each other, but to submit in common to an egalitarian principle of the distribution of language goods.

Whenever they met, they stayed away from money talk and spoke of educational policy.

Drevni Goti u Germaniji [...] - ima?ahu jedan mudar zajedni?ki obi?aj, naime, da o svakoj važnijoj stvari koja se ticala zajednice raspravljaju dvaput; i to - jednom kad su pijani, a drugi put u treznom stanju;- Pijani - da im savetovanje ne bude lišeno snage i odvažnosti;- atrezni - da ne bude lišeno razboritosti i opreznosti.

Scientologists are trained to believe that whatever happens to them is somehow their fault, so much of the discussion in the Hole centered on what they had done to deserve this fate. The possibility that the leader of the church might be irrational or even insane was so taboo that no one could even think it, much less voice it aloud.

It was against 'history,' against the belief that 'history' can decide any question, that progress can ever make superfluous the discussion of the primary questions [...] that [Nietzsche] reasserted hypothetically the doctrine of eternal return.

No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself.

Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.