Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Conversation. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Conversation Quotes And Sayings by 97 Authors including Mia Conrad,Gretchen Rubin,Carolyn Heilbrun,Amy Bloom,Sydney J. Harris for you to enjoy and share.
Do remember that communication is an exchange of thoughts. This means listening and speaking are necessary. You can't call something a conversation if you're the only one talking or listening. -- Mia Conrad
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective. -- Gretchen Rubin
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits. -- Amy Bloom
Somebody once said that good conversation should be like a tennis match, with each player gracefully sending the ball back across the net; instead, most conversation is like a golf game, with each player stroking only his own ball, and waiting impatiently for the other to finish. -- Sydney J. Harris
People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about -- Lady Gaga
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking. -- Susan Jacoby
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind. -- Barbara Pym
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings. -- Vinessa Shaw
Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves. -- Dhani Jones
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. -- Seneca.
Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor. -- Mark Mason
Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out. -- John Dos Passos
Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. -- Robertson Davies
Conversation fertilizes our understanding and that is why customers are demanding that businesses converse with them rather than talk down to them. -- J. N. Halm
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. -- Phyllis Bottome
These days, students struggle with conversation. What makes sense is to engage them in it. The more you think about educational technology, with all its bells and whistles, the more you circle back to the simple power of conversation. -- Sherry Turkle
A strange conversation for young people. -- Heidi Willard
At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth. -- Susan Jacoby
When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended. -- Nanamoli Thera
A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances. -- Nadia Hashimi
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part. -- Randolph Bourne
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people. -- Padgett Powell
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers. -- Jean Piaget
Conversation isn't about proving a point; true conversation is about going on a journey with the people you are speaking with. -- Ricky Maye
The best ideas start as conversations. -- Jonathan Ive
I love conversations!" "Why?" "Because we're all crazy!" said Serge. "And that's how society makes progress: imaginations getting together and glancing off each other in accidental tangents of invention. -- Tim Dorsey
The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person. -- Theodore Zeldin
Talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Conversations carry a momentum, there's a path they are expected to take, a cycle, a season, like the growing of crop. Take the rhythm of seasons away and farmers grow confused. Turn a conversation at right angles and men lose their surety. -- Mark Lawrence
I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [ ... ] or juicy gossip. -- Gad Saad
At the core of every successful conversation lies the free flow of relevant information. -- Kerry Patterson
There is more to talking than just words. -- Humphrey Bogart
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. -- Dan Simmons
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. -- Edith Wharton
'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions. -- Hill Harper
Conversation, the gradual unveiling of oneself, one's quirks and characteristics, opinions and beliefs; what a fraught and awkward business that is. -- David Nicholls
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. -- Edward R. Murrow
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. -- George Santayana
When people start talking, things happen. -- Cary Fukunaga
When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding -- Kirsten Siggins
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs. -- George Orwell
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk. -- Publilius Syrus
Open up allowing the temporal and eternal self to dance deeper into the conversation. -- Gillian Elizabeth
Conversation is a gentle art that requires a degree of kindness sometimes. If this seems difficult don't forget that there are probably times when someone patiently and graciously let you ramble on about something that had no interest to them. Sometimes -- Gary Allman
The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement -- Danny Silk
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. -- Bryce Courtenay
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. -- William Hazlitt
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. -- Truman Capote
Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it. -- Robert Mckee
Good communication using WORDS -- Eric Sutherland
Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast. -- Keith Miller
Some conversations are not about what they're about. -- Anne Carson
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. -- Emily Post
If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different. -- John Stoker
All social change begins with a conversation. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
And this totally normal conversation unspools from there, covering the basics: family, siblings, school, favorite composers, favorite movies, favorite wood (for carving puppets), the prehistory of the sandwich, and whether the ancient Romans got their togas caught in the spokes of their unicycles -- Laini Taylor
A conversational roadblock. -- Taylor Jenkins Reid
Conversation is now pretty well a lost art. -- Dorothy Nevill
Everybody talks, but there is no conversation. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread. -- Johann Arndt
Lets talk to one another instead of about one another. -- John F. Kennedy
Leadership is a conversation. -- William A. Adams
Discussion keeps a house alive. It cannot stand by bricks and mortar alone. -- E. M. Forster
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. -- James Nathan Miller
Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying -- Robert Towne
To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. -- Charlotte Bronte
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men. -- Marshall Mcluhan
It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them. -- Dale Ludwig
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. -- David Byrne
Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth. -- Oli Anderson
Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words. -- Richard Branson
Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say -- Srividya Srinivasan
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People love to talk, so let them have fun talking. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
For good conversation you only need one other person who shares your passion and cares about what you care about. -- Harrison Owen
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. -- Oscar Wilde
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. -- Washington Gladden
A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement -- Seth Godin
Connecting today is a dialogue. -- Mark Parker
I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss. -- Alex Flinn
Together, the two began the kind of conversation that flows seamlessly, unstoppably, each fork begetting another branch of common interest, a conversation that continues until this day. -- David Oliver Relin
Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation. -- David Amerland
Conversation is a game of circles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion. -- Marty Rubin
When two friends, like you and me, 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. -- Plato
Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become. -- Jaron Lanier
My life is a never ending conversation of the things that people do not say -- Ally Carter
The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation -- Oscar Wilde
Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question. -- John Tortorella
Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have, when we are very young, late at night about the meaning of life. -- Jan Morris
I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation. -- Carol Gilligan
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage. -- Alain-Rene Lesage
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. -- William Benton Clulow
One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying -- P. J. O'rourke
Non sense discussions, have you ever thought that most discussions which you have are useless, pointess?? It's true and that's why I never go out. -- Deyth Banger
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. -- Cory Doctorow
communication simply requires -- Charles Petzold
