870 Quotes About Conversation

The art of conversation lies in listening

Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend.

Besides, I know what sort of a mind I have placed in communication with my own: I know it is one not liable to take infection: it is a peculiar mind: it is a unique one. Happily, I do not mean to harm it: but if I did, it would not take harm from me. The more you and I converse the better; for while I cannot blight you, you may refresh me.

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

One has to tell people what to think. There's no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.

I learned that identical emotions do not spring up in the hearts of all men simultaneously, by a pre-established order. Later on I discovered that, whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.

Let's sit outside at night... Talk about life... Look at the stars and think about what's up there... Bad science and good laughs... Let's put down our phones and lift up each other's spirits.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?