I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing… — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Next time a blocked number calls you answer like this: 'Local sperm bank. You jack it, we pack it. How may I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I… — Cheri Bustos Copy Share Image
You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises… — Dieter Rams 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
So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems… — Wilfrid Sellars Copy Share Image
Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work.… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
As a woman, it's frustrating to understand and accept the fact that there are so many messed up young boys who threaten… — Shibani Dandekar Copy Share Image
It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
To love me, is to know me. To know me, is to learn me. To learn me, is to listen to me.… — Avieh Concepcion Copy Share Image
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge for mankind in polished speeches that are no more than vaporous winds rustling the… — Goethe Copy Share Image
“Just as there are accents in speech, there are regional accents in sign. People from the South sign slower than people in… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of… — Samuel J. Palmisano Copy Share Image
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years. — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
“difficult conversations are almost never about getting the facts right. They are about conflicting perceptions, interpretations, and values.” — Douglas Stone Copy Share Image
Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation. — Dan Povenmire Copy Share Image
I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I… — Kristoffer Polaha Copy Share Image
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake to most people Listen to half of the conversation Understand the quarter Speak all the time.. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
“Broker looks at Zeb, ‘How about a fancy, motivating speech?’ Zeb grunts and moves past him. ‘That’ll do,’ says Broker. ‘For a… — Ty Patterson Copy Share Image
I always had an ability to listen and give people the space to open up and express themselves, and I was hoping… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
