Meaningful Exchange Quotes

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on.

I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.

If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.

Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.