870 Quotes About Conversation

If you feel that you need to argue, do so once you’ve listened, because if you do you’re likely to realize that there’s really nothing to argue about. And that’s the best argument for not having one.

Everything that happens in an organization happens in or because of a conversation. If you want tochange the culture, you’ve got to change the conversation.

Interviewing Questions •What do you enjoy most about this season of the year?•What got you involved in this organization/event?•If you weren’t here, what would you be doing at this very moment?•If you could meet any one person, whom would you choose?•Tell me about an issue that matters a great deal to you.•What has been your most important work experience?

Interviewing Questions •What word would you say describes you best?•Do you have a personal motto or creed?•Do you have any heroes that you greatly admire?•What did people in high school think you were like?•What do you do that you wish you could stop doing?

I laughed to myself although there was no one there to see me. I loved when he was available to me like this, when our relationship was like a Word document that we were writing and editing together, or a long private joke that nobody else could understand. I liked to feel that he was my collaborator. I liked to think of him waking up at night and thinking of me.

If he silently decides not to say something when they’re talking, Marianne will ask ‘what?’ within one or two seconds. This ‘what?’ question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them.

Он сидел рядом с миссис Рэмзи, и ему решительно нечего было ей сказать.– Простите, пожалуйста, – сказала миссис Рэмзи, наконец-то к нему поворачиваясь.Он себе показался пустым и жёстким, как ботинок, намокший и высохший – никак не втиснешь ногу. А ногу втиснуть придется. А из себя что-то выдавить.

Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

Right to speak comes with a duty to listen.