870 Quotes About Conversation

Usually they defined "listening" as a period in which you worked out what you were going to say next.

We may not be, as we used to boast, the only ones who can deploy vocal communication for sheer pleasure and recreation, combining it with our two other boasts of reason and humor to produce higher syntheses. To lose this ability is to be deprived of an entire range of faculty. It is assuredly to die more than a little.

In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point.

Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me.“Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation.

When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.

I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

It's far more important why is being said, than what.