Communication Quote by Debby Irving Download Open image ““I’ve heard it said that conversations are the way human beings think together.”” — Debby Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication
“Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this--two minds bound together by their focus on the same subject.” — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
“I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“True conversation is its own experience, and experience, not words, is the thing that brings people closer.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Conversations with people we don’t usually talk to lead to ideas we wouldn’t think of on our own.” — David Sturt Copy Share Image
“(It doesn’t matter what we think we’re saying—it’s what others hear.)” — Carl Medearis Copy Share Image
“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s better just to think things through than to talk about them all the time.” — Catherine Clark Copy Share Image
“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“We're all human and disagreements come up even between two people who are deeply in love.” — Wanda E. Brunstetter Copy Share Image
“Only a small part of reality, for a human being, is what is actually going on; the greater part is what he imagines in… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the English-only acts… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Shifting from a superior/inferior paradigm to a strength-in-difference paradigm was kind of a good news/bad news situation. On the downside, I had to admit… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Any cycle that traps someone in a state of perpetual disadvantage is the real issue for the person experiencing it.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva comments: “[The] melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, et cetera, could not melt into the pot. They… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Choosing to engage in the effort to dismantle racism promises to bring with it discomfort, yet how can I compare my discomfort to what… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Racism demands an artificial and divisive construction of humanity, in terms of how I make sense of others and also how I envision myself.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“I now understand that acting like a white American wasn’t just a “When in Rome do as the Romans do” cultural sensibility, but a… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“My white skin, an epidermal gold card, has greased the skids for a life full of opportunities and rewards” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
