Open Dialogue Quotes

#1. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,

Alain J. P. Belda

#2. Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.

Tyler Oakley

#3. Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

Ban Ki-moon

#4. A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Peter Fenn

#5. Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure - especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.

Mike Krzyzewski

#6. One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.

Herbert Hainer

#7. I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."

Tyler Perry

#8. I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

Ma Jian

#9. Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can.

Nick Jonas

#10. I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

Lynda Benglis

#11. Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

Park Geun-hye

#12. That's me, keeping things bitchy from open to close." I turned around and gave him my customer service smile.

Katherine McIntyre

#13. I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#14. In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

Deborah Tannen

#15. It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.

Edgar Wright

#16. By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.

Pope John Paul II

#17. 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

#18. In an ever more open world,
building peace through dialogue
is no longer a choice but a necessity!

Pope Benedict XVI

#19. Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#20. Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Narendra Modi

#21. We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.

Chen Shui-bian

#22. My primary objective is to encourage dialogue between all Christians, both Jew and Gentile, and to open more lines of communication with Jews who still have yet to accept Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.

James Mikolajczyk

#23. If we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become, a more tolerant, loving place.

Russell Simmons

#24. The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

Roddy Doyle

#25. We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

Jim Clyburn

#26. Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.

John Durham Peters

#27. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#28. A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Cornel West

#29. Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Malcolm Boyd

#30. We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation.

Anthony Carmona

#31. It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.

Derek Jameson

#32. We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.

Tim McDonald

#33. In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

Mark Zuckerberg

#34. I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It's just beautiful to see the interest that has exploded for such an incredible art form that I will forever be grateful to!

Misty Copeland