Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.
Four personalities are bound to clash.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.
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