Honest Dialogue Quotes

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

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

Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.

I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple.

You can't lie to kids about drugs. They know about drugs. You can't say they're just all bad. They know life is a little more complicated. I have never done heroin. I would never recommend heroin, but it hasn't hurt my record collection.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

Sometimes hiding behind masculinity with your homies can get in the way of having a real dialogue.

I want to encourage young people to have open and honest conversations with themselves, by doing so we proactively work on ourselves and create safe and caring environments that foster resiliency.

I want to talk about the things that people don't think you're allowed to talk about.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.