Conversation Quotes - Page 31

• . . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Order, Interaction With Others, Differences

  Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton (2007). “How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

  Paul Tournier

  Real, Commitment, Discovery

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.

  Paolo Pellegrin

  Opportunity, World, Concern

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• What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

  Eva Rubinstein

  Dream, Offering, Years

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• The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.

  Jurgen Teller

  Mother, Suicide, Talking

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• It was like everything that supported the relationship was coming from the outside. Judging by all the signs, we were a perfectly successful couple and John was an ideal husband for me - rich, blond, tall, sensitive, ad nauseam. But even worse, it seemed as if our most intimate conversations were based on what we were supposed to be saying, and what we were supposed to be. Nothing seemed to come directly from us.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Couple, Husband, Successful

  Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

  Dylan Moran

  Talking, People, Listening

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• There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, World, Way

  "Kristen Stewart detours from 'Twilight' to a different kind of drama in 'Welcome to the Rileys'". Interview with Amy Kaufman, articles.latimes.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul.
  If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.

  Meister Eckhart

  Jesus, Home, Soul

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• Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

  David Weinberger

  Defining

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.195, Basic Books

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• The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women'

  Tucker Max

  Self Confidence, Order, Ideas

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• The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

  Katherine Center

  Eye, Hands, Rolling

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• The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Vision, Radical

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• % of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

  Deborah Bull

  Body, Body Language

  "The power of good presentation: body language" by Donna Warrick, www.jamessonsolutions.com. June 15, 2017.

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• I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right.

  John Michael Greer

  Long, Might, Als

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• To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

  Mark Nepo

  Distance, Feelings, Resources

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Nov 06, 2015

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• A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel.

  Will Smith

  Dog, Men, Emotional

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• It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Prayer, Couple

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• To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

  Phil Collins

  Struggle, Honest, Language

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• The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

  Shane Claiborne

  Revolution, Kind, Christianity

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Thinking, Creative, Important

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• The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Book, Leader, Feelings

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• is a process of inner transformation, a conversation initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One's way of seeing reality changes in the process. A restructuring of consciousness takes place which empowers one to perceive, relate and respond with increasing sensitivity to the divine presence in, through, and beyond everything that exists.

  Thomas Keating

  Reality, Empowering, Unions

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• The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

  Avery Sunshine

  Home, Artist, Practice

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The Angelina Effect refers to the fact that a powerful, beautiful, well-respected and world-renowned woman unabashedly revealed private medical details about a gene mutation which affects 1 in 500 people. In so doing, she raised awareness and sparked conversations around the world amongst known BRCA carriers, possible carriers, and the circle of family and friends who care about them.

  Kristi Funk

  Beautiful, Powerful, Circles

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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