“The least interesting aspect of good conversation is what is actually said. What is more interesting is all the deliberations and emotions… — Tor Norretranders Copy Share Image
Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing… — John Major Copy Share Image
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I wanted to know how much of conversion was forced - that is, forced in the sense that the Inquisition forced people… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all.… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to.… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Listening to stories and telling them helped our ancestors to live humanly—to be human. But somewhere along the way our ability to… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Be careful when you listen to others speak. Life is a story of many voices and the truth lies between them.” — D.M. Pulley Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you realize that no one is listening to you when you have a really good story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember that anytime you feel the need to begin a conversation with the words, "I probably shouldn't tell… — Robert Morris Copy Share Image
Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Six months earlier, my ice breaker concerned a stripper who became a quadriplegic and eventually had her vagina eaten away by bedsores,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
'The Conversation' is one that, if you watch 'The Conversation' for the opening sequence, where you hear a conversation taking place as… — Colin O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In particular, husbands and wives who do poorly at nonverbal communication tend to be dissatisfied with their marriages. Moreover, when such problems… — Rowland Miller Copy Share Image
“He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely… — Margaret Craven Copy Share Image
Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else. — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
