Able Quote by Dwight Macdonald Download Open image “Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion” — Dwight Macdonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Communication Conversation Disagree Discussion Mean Stills
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on them. It… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision. — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some. — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody. — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it. — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance". — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
