Self Dialogue Quotes

#1. We are all constructed out of our self dialogue.

Bryant McGill

#2. The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

David Antin

#3. The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

Paul Tournier

#4. I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

Questlove

#5. Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.

Azar Nafisi

#6. I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Michael Heizer

#7. If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.

Ron McMillan

#8. If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

George Lakoff

#9. What more could I have done when I did not know that to love is both to seek and to be sought? For me love was nothing but a dialogue of little riddles, with no answers given.

Yukio Mishima

#10. Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

Eudora Welty

#11. A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Ali Smith

#12. Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique," a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. I know I only want him,' she said between sobs, the syllables all wrong, 'because he doesn't want me. How is that even possible?'

'It's normal to want what we can't have,' I said soothingly.

'No, I mean how can he not want me?

Olivia Sudjic

#14. This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

Roger Ebert

#15. God's love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#16. Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.

Elizabeth Bowen

#17. A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

Rudolf Nureyev

#18. Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

Brian Helgeland

#19. Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

Paula Vogel

#20. I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

Mike Vallely

#21. Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

Oli Anderson

#22. I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

Justin Lin

#23. There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue is, that's happening in the scene. You've got to play something rather than feel self-conscious or exposed.

Geoffrey Rush

#24. China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

Hu Jintao

#25. Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.

Crystal Woods

#26. Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

Will Self

#27. The dialogue is solo now. I don't talk. No matter who's in bed with me I never do. My thoughts slip off into nightmares sometimes but I don't share them. I have become now what I only began to be then - completely self-protective.

Jack Ketchum

#28. I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

Dalai Lama

#29. I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#30. Dialogue, discussion, and participatory decision making are all part of building self-discipline.

Jim Highsmith

#31. Nerds obsess. We zealously deconstruct. We have a very active internal monologue (which may feel more like a dialogue sometimes). I think that so many of the things we undertake are a partial attempt to distract this monologue. We are hyper-self-aware. We have difficulty chilling out.

Chris Hardwick

#32. We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within.

Matthew Donnelly

#33. Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

Charles Yu

#34. I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

Elvis Presley

#35. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

Oli Anderson

#36. [M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Charles Taylor

#37. In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance.

Carolyn Elliott

#38. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.

Iris Murdoch

#39. Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Deepak Chopra

#40. Monitor your self-talk, that internal dialogue of what you are telling yourself every day.

Tom Benfield

#41. You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.

Karen Armstrong

#42. A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

Lisa Firestone

#43. 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

#44. Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.

Oli Anderson

#45. As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#46. By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

Bruce Edwards Ivins

#47. The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

Klaus Kinkel

#48. Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

Bell Hooks

#49. Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer

#50. I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.

Maiwenn

#51. We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

David Tennant

#52. It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Janet Echelman

#53. I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Tom Stoppard

#54. I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

Laurie Graham

#55. As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.

Michael Boatman

#56. Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

Peter Berg

#57. 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

#58. I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

Victoria Aveyard

#59. What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

Richard Russo

#60. As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

Michael Connelly

#61. People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country can only be restored through dialogue and democratic procedures, rather than with the use of armed force, tanks and aircraft.

Vladimir Putin

#62. The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

Benazir Bhutto

#63. As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

Stephen King

#64. When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Julie Taymor

#65. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

Thomas Merton

#66. This is about how you relate to the world,' C said.

'Maybe it's about how the world relates to me,' I said back.

Alexandra Kleeman

#67. Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Elizabeth Bowen

#68. Good dialogue is very important.

Clive Owen

#69. One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

Anne Lamott

#70. With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.

Yoshihiko Noda

#71. Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it.

Robert McKee

#72. We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#73. Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.

Bill Watterson

#74. I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch I was just sitting there in a like a bronze track suit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue.

Will Forte

#75. I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Jessica Hagedorn

#76. Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

Jerome Stern

#77. Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

Dalai Lama

#78. Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Dalai Lama XIV

#79. 'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

Misty Copeland

#80. The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

Jack Coleman

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

Lynda Benglis

#82. The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

Daniel Goleman

#83. James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

Anne McCaffrey

#84. Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?

Jody Hill

#85. We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

Cornel West

#86. Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

Margaret Beckett