Communication Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The desire to perform impedes conversation.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Conversation Desire
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it. — Susan RoAne Copy Share Image
The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
“Why shall we talk? To depend on the conversation style as a primary language of effectiveness on the other person, in a way that… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They… — Barry Lopez 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
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation — Roy Sekoff Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
