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Quotes About Discussion

William Glasser: "We learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.
~ Bill Capodagli
Any war or conflict you enter where you are likely to lose more Americans and expend more treasure is something worthy of very detailed debate. There ought to be a lot of skepticism. There ought to be a lot of discussion.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.
~ Justin Trudeau
I think the rating system is a way to open more discussion with wrestling fans about matches. To me, it's just another outlet to voice their opinions, so that's why I think they are so passionate about it.
~ Adam Cole
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
~ Amit Bhatia
I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are.
~ Teri Garr
Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.
~ Sally Rooney
Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
~ Fatema Mernissi
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
~ Stanley Crouch
But he loved the contrapuntality of discussion even before he quite understood that words possessed dedicated meanings.
~ Gregory Maguire
Colonies (nos). S'attrister quand on en parle.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Club4. Sujet d'exaspération pour les conservateurs. Embarras et discussion sur la prononciation de ce mot
~ Gustave Flaubert
Madame Chantal?a large woman whose ideas always strike me as being square-shaped, like stones dressed by a mason?was in the habit of concluding any political discussion with the remark: 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap'. Why have I always imagined that Madame Chantal's ideas are square? I've no idea, but everything she says goes into that shape in my mind: a block?a large one?with four symmetrical angles.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Here is a list of the top 100 users discussing social media and a list that Peg compiled of social-media tweets. To find more topics, search for Twitter lists. You can also create your own.
~ Guy Kawasaki
I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.
~ Guy Vanderhaeghe
Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
~ H.L. Mencken
These little debates are known as "flamewars.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The teams disappeared into corners for the postgame spiel.
~ Harlan Coben
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
~ Mel Gibson
All the major discussion sites are owned by large money-grubbing corporations, and their platforms are closed source. It's incredibly toxic.
~ Fredrick Brennan
The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.
~ Dave Brat
The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.
~ Jay Roach
What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.
~ John Ralston Saul
As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.
~ Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant