Bruce Nauman Quotes

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Understanding is a two-way street.

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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

If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.

How else are we going to get anywhere if we can't talk to each other?

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.