I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.
If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.
You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.
Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
Keep a strict Inspection upon their Conversations; Examine, How they spend their Time; Examine, What Company they keep?
My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.
As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.
Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.
We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.
For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.
You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.
She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.
You banter, and you talk, and you get a sense of the speed of thinking and flexibility... It's not terribly scientific, but I interview a dozen or two dozen people a week, and I get a certain vibe reasonably fast.
I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
