Adept Quote by Ted Alexandro

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

— Susan RoAne

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

— Mason Cooley

“Powerful people talk differently than weaker people, interrupting more, taking more conversational time, and using longer pauses. They get to control the tempo of…

— Nick Morgan

The more you practice something, the more you are aware of what you're doing.

— Borns

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting…

— Walter Scott

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

— Dashiell Hammett

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in…

— Richard Avedon

Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

— Ted Alexandro

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

— Deborah Tannen

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

— Gretchen Rubin

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

— Livingston Taylor

I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire;…

— Krysten Ritter