Julien Baker Quotes

Dialogue can be a very dangerous pastime, for it may force us to give up some of our most cherished caricatures—and these die hard.

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I never discuss discussions.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

There's always a way to talk.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.