Quotes About The Power Of Conversation

#1. The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

Sam Harris

#2. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

Sam Branson

#5. Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.

Marcel Proust

#6. These days, students struggle with conversation. What makes sense is to engage them in it. The more you think about educational technology, with all its bells and whistles, the more you circle back to the simple power of conversation.

Sherry Turkle

#7. Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#9. Um.. This conversation was probably the worst idea I'd ever had in my life. I was able to picture everything Jordy described, in freaking 3D. And it was turning me on- like plugging into a power grid sort of turning me on. I felt hot all over and my dick was starting to throb. (Owen)

Eli Easton

#10. About this time two new propositions entered Fat's mind, due to this particular conversation. 1) Some of those in power are insane. 2) And they are right.

Anonymous

#11. If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#12. Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.

Wynton Marsalis

#13. Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation ... Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand
the words go deep.

Peter Elbow

#14. I was far from understanding that the capacity of men interested in power is not necessarily expressed in the brilliance of their conversation.

Anthony Powell

#15. Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

P. M. Forni

#16. In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

Elizabeth Lesser

#19. The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#20. She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done.

Isaac Asimov

#22. Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it's all about consumption and calories.

Mary DeTurris Poust

#23. I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if you're post 30 or post 35. This [is] conversation about reproduction, about taking your own power with you and deciding for yourself.

Staceyann Chin

#24. The ultimate male tradition is keeping women from sitting at the table of conversation regarding the balance of power between genders.

Bryant McGill

#25. One wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power when the political wind is blowing in its direction.

Garrance Franke-Ruta

#26. 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

#27. In any case, it wouldn't affect the results at all, but that phrase the balance of power always sounds impressive in conversation, as if you'd been reading Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. I

Michel Houellebecq

#28. As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?

Curtis Sittenfeld