Quotes About Conversation

people depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening. Listening is paying attention. It's amazing what people will tell you if you listen.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening.

people depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized. We all need to think to keep things straight, but we mostly think by talking.

próxima vez que se encontraran en una discusión: «Detén la discusión un momento e introduce esta regla: "Cada persona puede decir lo que piensa solo después de repetir las ideas y sentimientos de la persona que acaba de hablar de forma minuciosa, con una formulación que esa persona apruebe"».

When you next find yourself in a dispute: stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately and to that speaker's satisfaction.

Freud had a point. He was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him. But there are disadvantages to the detached and somewhat distant approach recommended by Freud. Many of those who seek therapy desire and need a closer, more personal relationship (although that also has its dangers). This is in part why I have opted in my practice for the conversation, instead of the Freudian method—as have most clinical psychologists.

information or had a chance to review it, as there's an excellent possibility that he'll say "no" to at least one of those questions, which gives him an easy exit ramp out of the encounter. The way to avoid this is to simply ask him if the conversation "rings a bell," to which he will almost always reply with a yes.

You can explain it to a Congressman in six minutes and he can talk about it for six months.

Por entre cabeças se descobrindo ou se inclinando, a recolher gestos e palavras de conforto e simpatia, em meio ao bulício da cidade, gente a passar, a conversar, a rir, dona Flor caminhou com seu buquê de flores destinadas à campa de Vadinho. Ia em direção ao cemitério mas era na vida que de novo penetrava; ei-la de retorno, convalescente ainda.

The only people who are worth knowing are either saints, scoundrels or madmen; at least their conversation is always interesting. Sensible people are dull by definition, because they are always harping on to the same boring tune about everyday life. They form part of the crowd, the more intelligent part perhaps, but the crowd for all that, and I'm sick of them.

Elimden gelse seninle sekiz yüz elli iki bin kilometre hiç durmadan konuÅŸurdum. -Bu kadar yola nas?l benzin yetiÅŸtiririz? -Gider gibi yapar?z.

Daha çok anlat.' dedim. 'Çok. Elimden gelse seninle sekiz yüz elli iki bin kilometre hiç durmadan konuÅŸurdum.' 'Bu kadar yola nas?l benzin yetiÅŸtiririz?' 'Gider gibi yapar?z.

Daha anlatsana," dedim. "HoÅŸuna m? gitti?" "Hem de çok. Seninle sekiz yüz elli iki bin kilometre boyunca hiç durmadan laflamak isterdim." "Benzinimiz yeter mi ki?" "Yalanc?ktan doldurursak yeter.

Conversation is the socializing instrument par excellence, and in its style one can see reflected the capacities of a race.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

The great political questions take their place in the psychic economy of the typical citizen with those leisure-hour interests that have not yet attained the rank of hobbies, and with the subjects of irresponsible conversation.

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.

It is very easy to learn how to speak and write correctly, as for all purposes of ordinary conversation and communication

Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

To effectively create a front porch experience, there cannot be any expectations that the group

Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.