Quotes About Discussion

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Triple H is very hands-on and approachable. My whole 'Glorious' song is because of Triple H. Before I even signed my contract, we discussed what I wanted to do and what he felt like I could do. It's been a real joy working for him.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

In daily life, there are times when people are happy to talk about problems, but when the society is troubled by something, there is never a larger platform for discussion. Bollywood is religion in our country and that is the best place where you can place those questions on the table.

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.

The president and I had much more important stuff to talk about than Donald Trump. I've never discussed Mr. Trump with the president of the United States.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

twittering among themselves in some obscure but vehement argument.

divert the discussion from its main intent and fasten upon some statement of mine which lacks a hair's-breadth of the truth and, under this hair, hide the fault of another which is as big as a ship's cable.

Create an atmosphere in your classroom that encourages questioning, open discussion and respect for a wide range of beliefs and opinions.

Page once said that anyone hired at Google should be capable of engaging him in a fascinating discussion should he be stuck at an airport with the employee on a business trip. The implication was that every Googler should converse at the level of Jared Diamond or the ghost of Alan Turing. The idea was to create a charged intellectual atmosphere that makes people want to come to work.