The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“This lack of leisure and of intimacy is not a peripheral matter—nothing Socrates thinks can be expeditiously conveyed by public deliverance; it… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“Whatever the culture, there’s a tongue in our head. Some use it, some hold it, some bite it. For the French it… — Richard D. Lewis Copy Share Image
Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Given that his rousing speeches play on a perpetual loop somewhere in the back of the national psyche, and the bulk of… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and failure to listen, I am committed to cultivating loving speech and compassionate listening… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“If there was indeed a recording of the conversation that followed, it did not exist for long. Carter would never speak of… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, you say things and people listen.… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is probably the last conversation like this the seminarian and I will have. After his ordination, particular friendships with women will… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
Throughout the health-insurance reform process, we have had a frequent and consistent dialogue with the business community - small, medium, and large… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
“The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“And how much more do we need Korzybski’s consciousness of abstracting at a time when so much of our lives are spent… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the… — Arthur Martine Copy Share Image
The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Mom taught me not to look away from the worst but to believe that we can all do better. She never wavered… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
When I'm around people having conversations about their day, I'm looking at them, like, 'What could they possibly be talking about? How… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the… — Keith Willhite Copy Share Image
All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To stay on the cutting edge, we must be aware of current literature in our fields, use technology, and engage in conversations… — Karen A Longman Copy Share Image
Fundraising is also always a call conversion. And this comes to both those who seek funds and those who have funds. Whether… — Henri Copy Share Image
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
The importance of patience and communication. Having a child and husband, working crazy and unpredictable times for shows, and traveling to teach… — Allison Holker Copy Share Image
“Jane to Cosmo-- So you're thinking, you know, 'WTF, I thought we were going to do the horizontal mambo, and she has… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Forty-six years after my parents' journey from India, here I am, the grandson of a spare auto parts salesman and a file… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are… — John Hallock Jr Copy Share Image
“Wilson also made regulating information and speech a top priority. Less than two weeks after his request for a declaration of war,… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Internet has contributed to certainly a new kind of communication among us - not all of it good; a lot of it,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The targets of George W. Bush's 'axis of evil' speech were not Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Those regimes don't need a… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
