Dialogue Quotes - Page 18

• I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Has Beens

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.204, Anchor

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• Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

  Louis L'Amour

  Plato, Book, Fall

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

  Tao Lin

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub

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• The future belongs to brands that do more than pay lip-service to real dialogue and recognise that their customers want them to believe in something.

  James Murdoch

  Business, Real, Believe

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• We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Patience, Business, Community

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• Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

  Tony Benn

  Religious, Other Worlds, Politics

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• I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

  John Shelby Spong

  God, Truth, People

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• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Sadness, Thinking

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 165, 1973.

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• This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

  Alicia Alonso

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.

  Juan Carlos Copes

  Dance, Men, Two

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• The success of any user generated content-related project should be judged in the long term. Try not to use it as a one-off campaign activation idea. Think of it instead as the beginning or continuation of an ongoing dialogue with your consumers.

  Damian Thompson

  Business, Thinking, Ideas

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• We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law.

  Charles Koch

  Change, Mean, Thinking

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• My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Teacher, Children

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• The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Teaching, Taught

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• If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.

  Marion Woodman

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Strength, Peace, Differences

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• ...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

  Understanding, Tolerance, And Love

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• All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Confusing, Needs

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• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Communication, Ties

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• Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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• 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. Anzaldúa

  Self, Justice, Soul

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• Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result, many other concerns have come to the fore: peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance, and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain promising precautions, those who should be tackling these problems tend to do so by seeking further ways to conquer and control nature and produce more lethal weapons.

  Fethullah Gulen

  War, Erosion, Air

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• Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

  Laura Harvey

  Letting Go, Past, Giving

  "Letting Go: How to Release the Past" by Laura Harvey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspiring, Flower, Artist

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• Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Diversity, Fundamentals, Unfolding

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