Thomas Sadoski Quotes

I try to ask a question rather than give a speech.

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.

I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.

Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people.

Sometimes it doesn't hurt to talk around a little and see what lights people's eyes up and what makes them cloud over.

My job is to generate discussion.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I like arguments.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.