Conversation Quotes - Page 27

• Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Book, Film, Should

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• Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.

  William Greider

  Powerful, Creating, People

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• My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.

  Brian Grazer

  Real, Creative, Curiosity

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• You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.

  Anne Frank

  Meaningful, Dark, Tickling

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.124, Hamilton Books

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• When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

  Isabel Allende

  Mistake, Kitchen, Stories

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• If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Kindness, Winning, Numbers

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• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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• It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Intelligent, Knowing

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• Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

  James Cook

  Gathering, Stranger, Social

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• In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

  John Milton

  Intention, Ends

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.187

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• It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what that means in relationships. As a person in the world, it's on your mind. It's a part of your life, after a certain age until you're dead. So, to be able to examine it in a different way is really fulfilling.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Sex, Mean, Intellectual

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

  Katey Sagal

  Husband, Gun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on.

  Katey Sagal

  Moving, Likes, Solutions

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Whether they agree with what they're hearing or not, they have to know to shut up and listen.

  W. Kamau Bell

  White, Racism, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.

  Juno Temple

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Example, Done, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.

  Judy Woodruff

  Book, Technology, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.

  Judy Woodruff

  Two, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Play, Phones

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

  Judy Woodruff

  Phones, Encounters, Lasts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

  Judy Woodruff

  Home, Technology, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

  Judy Woodruff

  People, Pilots, Interviews

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We were going to call it "Star Trek: The Avengers", and for a while we were like, "People are going to love that title". No, we had a whole bunch of titles, we never had any official title until we came out with this, we had different conversations about other things.

  Bryan Burk

  Stars, People, Titles

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, things come up and we have those conversations. I feel that they're all in a kind of similar state, which is that we all keep working on them, in house, until we feel like it's ready and then it goes from being something that were working on to ready very quickly.

  Bryan Burk

  House, Kind, States

  Source: collider.com

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• When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

  Kalup Linzy

  Thinking, People, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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