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The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

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.

There is not a day that goes by that does not include a conversation with God. There is not a day that goes by that does not contain signs. There are many days that go by on which we do not hear the conversation, do not see the signs. So stay awake.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.