Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
I think the Merchant Ivory brand really means literate dialogue. I think it starts with that. When people say something, you know… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
“Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“If an organization wants innovation to flourish, the conversation needs to change from severance packages to retention bonuses.” — Chris Farrell Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When people are like you, conversations flow naturally and feel more relaxed, don’t they? You know what to say, how to talk,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the idea that one of the greatest advantages we have here in the United States is freedom… — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
“I’ve enjoyed our conversation, knight. It’s been nice talking to someone who can—” “Create full and complete sentences?” That grin returned and,… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“God uses a multiplicity of ways to communicate with His people. Letters and numbers are just a fraction of the vehicles that… — Michael Copy Share Image
The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“Eager, perhaps, to repay the favor of listening, Sylvia nodded with encouragement. But suddenly she reminded Enid of Katharine Hepburn. In Hepburn's… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Like all of Mr. Sumner’s speeches, this speech was carefully written out and largely memorized. He was deficient in the qualities of… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes in religion, incarcerating animals or theories not based in fact might think a coherent conversation can be had on… — Gunther Boccius Copy Share Image
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless its a sunken… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“Third, nobody ever really listens to anybody else's complaints, anyhow, because we're all too focused on our own holy struggle, so basically… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Whatever you’re given can wake you up or put you to sleep. That’s the challenge of now: What are you going to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Words can stream out fast and furious or slow and painful. In either case, passion is wrapped around them. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“Effective Bible discussion, generated by a hospitable learning environment, is a guided conversation that involves people in observing, interpreting, and applying God’s… — Terry Powell Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
“If he could communicate to her with his body, perhaps he failed to see the need to communicate with words.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
You're put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it's like,… — Rotimi Copy Share Image
Communicate in the true sense with loved ones. Drop your high tech devices and engage in real talk. See the difference it… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image