Great Discussion Quotes

#1. I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

Anna Eshoo

#2. Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

#3. Indeed I have begun in this fashion, and place great importance on this opening chapter, for unless you are here convinced that a civilization without consciousness is possible, you will find the discussion that follows unconvincing and paradoxical.

Julian Jaynes

#4. The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

William Bennett

#5. The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.

Origen

#6. Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

Tunde Adebimpe

#7. It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.

Clive James

#8. If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Dick Spring

#9. If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Leon Trotsky

#10. Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

Raymond E. Feist

#11. In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#12. I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.

Adam Hasner

#13. You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

Todd Lieberman

#14. There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

William Jennings Bryan

#15. The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

Robert Schwentke

#16. SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.

Thomas A Kempis

#17. They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness.

Kathy Hepinstall

#18. All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

Tom Regan

#19. As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

William Jennings Bryan

#20. Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Jason Calacanis

#21. One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

Bing Gordon

#22. She had listened to the phone conversation and following discussion with great interest. Helen very much enjoyed climbing down into other people's lives and muddling around there with a pail and a shovel and possibly one of those old-fashioned striped bathing suits with the legs and arms.

Maggie Stiefvater

#23. It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ...

Peter Biskind

#24. The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#25. After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.

Alexander Kotov

#26. With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Daniel Ek