Quotes About Conversation

I can learn a lot from reading briefing books and talking to experts, but that pales in comparison to what I can learn from going out and talking to people about what they're actually experiencing and hearing about their ideas.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.

I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.

On 'Face The Nation,' we can have extended conversations with the president and senators and you need more than just a three minute segment.

I can understand the individual who is driven by biases. I can sit with him across the table and can talk to him, deal with him. But bias in the man whom we put in the seat of power and who decides to play on it... That man will destroy the very fabric of the nation.

I always prefer to speak face-to-face, typically in my own office, where I'm most comfortable.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.

I hadn't heard about the real-life case behind 'Bombshell' before, but the scandal sadly felt very familiar. It's great that the movie brought the specifics of this situation to light and reignited the conversation around the MeToo movement.

I love talking baseball. I think it's an interesting subject, I think it's something I'm familiar with. It's something I can constantly learn about, I do like talking with the fans and I do like talking with everyman. I really enjoy it.

Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club.

Girls are being left out of the conversation when it comes to technology, led to think of tech as insular and antisocial without ever being given a chance to correct those perceptions.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars.