Reclaiming Conversation Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

Russell L. Ackoff

#3. Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.

Rose Tremain

#4. No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. JAMES T. McCAY

Brian Tracy

#5. A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Charlie Byrd

#6. Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.

J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

#7. She asked herself if by some other chance combination it would have not been possible to meet another man;

Anonymous

#8. Have you ever known anyone this wealthy to go to jail? Or even be prosecuted? This guy could probably walk in here and shoot you in the face on a live newsfeed and get away with it.

James S.A. Corey

#9. My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

Lauren F. Winner

#10. Religion is, for the most part, our way of covering ourselves, a means of sewing respectability, morality, and charity into a patchwork garment that can hide our nakedness.

Michael S. Horton

#11. It's a good thing you're not my Story Weaver. You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads." "Well

Maria V. Snyder

#12. I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Ava DuVernay

#13. I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Roy Ayers

#14. Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven.
Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Marianne Williamson

#15. Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#16. New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father.

Patricia Briggs