Conversation Quotes
To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.
Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain, we need a much bigger conversation than this.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.
politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.
I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.
I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.
How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.
What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.
To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.
Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.
I don't think CNN is 'fake news.' I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation, that are not well-researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods.
It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.
Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.
Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.
I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.
I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.
It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.