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A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

~David Whyte

Topics: Always Another Contains Conversation Herself Himself Invitation Inviting Person Real Reveal Tell Want Who You

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When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

~David Wroblewski

Topics: Big Conversation Extended Fiction Having Intimate Making Materials Piece Software Something Themselves Very Whatever Whether Work You

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I'm not a Trump guy, but I do like what he's done with political speak. He's changed the conversation quite a bit. It's interesting to watch that happen.

~Dean Cain

Topics: Bit Changed Conversation Done Guy Happen He Interesting Like Political Quite Quite A Bit Speak Trump Watch

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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

~Deborah Bull

Topics: Apparently Before Body Body Language Conversation Had Language Powerful Read Speech Through Tool Understand Very Words You

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Unfortunately, too few women take the risk of running for political office or assuming positions of influence. As a result, our voices are not part of the conversation yet alone the final decision.

~Deborah K. Ross

Topics: Alone Assuming Conversation Decision Few Final Influence Office Our Part Political Positions Result Risk Running Take Too Unfortunately Voices Women

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For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Apology Balance Conversation Fair Literally Many Men Number Restoring Ritual Saying Sorry Way Women

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For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Connections Conversation Establishing Language Most Negotiating Primarily Rapport Relationships Way Women

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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Believing Biggest Biggest Mistake Conversation Listen Mistake Relationship Right Right Way Talk Way

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In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: About Common Communicators Conversation Conversational Discourse Enlightenment Entertainment Great In The Past More Now Orator Past Public Sound Than Today Were

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For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Amiable Apart Blow Chat Conversation Exploded Explosive Find Girl Glue Having Holds Perfectly Relationship Suddenly Talk Then Think Together Why Women Wounded You Yourself

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