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.
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.
Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.
As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.
Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.
I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.
To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.
Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.
I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.
