Quotes About Discussion

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

We're always working on our communication, which is something that's important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That's a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.

At the highest level, a discussion can be good sometimes to get everyone back on their toes.

There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

My wife and I have this discussion all the time. Her primal influences are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald. Mine are Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit and T.H. White. So, we have certain structural differences in form and content right off the bat!

The symbol of the 'one per cent' that so dominates discussions of economic inequality today comes, like the American dream it accompanies, from a century ago. The difference is that a hundred years ago many people considered billionaires un-American.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

The men who pile up the heaps of discussion and literature on the ethics of means and ends... are passionately committed to a mystical objectivity where passions are suspect. They assume a nonexistent situation where men dispassionately and with reason draw and devise means and ends as if studying a navigational chart on land.

Some threads narrow to 2 people going back and forth, and they should get a room (email/Skype/hotel).

Q: What is a forum? A: Two-um plus two-um.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!