Conversation Quotes
Listening actively confirms for people that you are positively receiving and thoroughly understanding the message they are conveying.
If the skill of participatory listening came effortlessly and easy for everyone, there would not be so many misunderstandings, communication breakdowns, irritations, and frustrations.
Active listening is key to all healthy and effective communication, however, it doesn't necessarily come easily.
While active listening is crucial for optimal communication, we are faced with a dilemma which can perplex even the sincerest and engaged of individuals.
When you become an actively engaged listener, you will develop the mindful awareness that active listening involves multiple layers and distinct levels.
Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.
I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.
R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.
Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.
He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.
The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.
...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students...
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing, ’ she muttered.
It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.
Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.
She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.
It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye
If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.
Conversation is the Best Content.
Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
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.
Perhaps it is easy for men to start a conversation by admiring women. Many times they may not mean it, but still they say it. Women may not believe it, but still they like to believe it.
I cherish genuine conversation, where people actually care what someone else has to say.
Hey, ... my name is DeYtH Banger, (So far thanks for reading this it's pretty interesting coversation... isn't it?).
You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out."I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.
Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.
And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.
At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules—rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.
The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization.
At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.
One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.
Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.
Genuine people never seems to be in rush. In their conversation they make the other person feel special.
Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.
Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially.
I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.