Attention Quote by Robert Greene

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what they're saying…

— Daniel H. Pink

“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

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

— Sherry Turkle

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.

— Susan RoAne

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

— Ordway Tead

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd…

— Adrien Brody

One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually…

— Max Weiss

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

— George Santayana

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

— P. J. O'Rourke