D Quotes
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“Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.”
“Dialogue cannot exist without humility.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.”
“Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.”
“Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.”
“Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.”
“Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.”
“Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.”
Source: The Writing of Fiction
“Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.”
Source: Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
“Dialogue is a necessary evil.”
“Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together”
“Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.”
“Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.”
Source: Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
“Dialogue is character and character is plot.”
“Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.”
Source: Fiction Writer's Workshop
“Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.'”
“Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.”
“Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.”
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs”
Source: Making Shapely Fiction
“Dialogue is often confused with something quite different: the feverish exchange of opinions on social networks, frequently based on media information that is not always reliable. These exchanges are merely parallel monologues. They may attract some attention by their sharp and aggressive tone. But monologues engage no one, and their content is frequently self-serving and contradictory.”
“Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.”
“Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.”
“Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.”
“Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“Dialogue is the interaction of souls before it can be the interaction of brains. And dialogue within a family is much more difficult than that between two mates at school or two men negotiating a business transaction. The reasons for this difficulty are many, among which is the fact that the home is a place for spontaneous behavior where the parties to the dialogue know one another very well with each one having formed what appears to be the final opinion about every other person.
The father knows his son’s aspirations as well as his weak points, and having tried unsuccessfully to help him several times before now, he cannot see why he should dialogue with him. The mother also thinks that her husband has passed a decree on a matter, and knowing him well that he does not reverse his decisions easily, she thinks that dialogue with him will only raise tension and bring no benefit.”
Source: Family Interactions
“Dialogue is the non-indifference of the I towards the Thou ... dialogue is a primary, underlying condition of being human, of being a person, as is love.”
Source: Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments
“Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.”
“Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”
“Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.”
“Dialogue isn’t about winning. It’s about understanding.”
Source: Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work
“Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.”
“Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.”
“Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.”
“Dialogue should show the relationships among people.”
“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
Source: Hitchcock
“Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.”
“Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.”
“Dialogue still reigns supreme as a method for connection and conflict resolution.”
Source: Co-Human Harmony: Using Our Shared Humanity to Bridge Divides
“Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.”
Source: Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
“Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.”
“Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.”
“Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real; debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.”
Source: Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
“Dialogue with Catholics and other nonevangelical Christians offered some correction to the Church Growth movement's fixation on cultural accommodation and baptism rates. However - save for those few who converted - evangelicals attracted to other Christian traditions have made those traditions their own. They assemble do-it-yourself liturgies from a hodgepodge of monastic prayers and mystics' visions. They lionize medieval dissenters - Celtic monks, or renegade Franciscans - but don't understand their broader Catholic context. Without quite realizing what they have done, evangelicals often use these ancient teachings and practices to confirm, rather than challenge, their own assumptions. History becomes a sidekick to one's twenty-first-century journey with Jesus.”
Source: Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
“Dialogue without listening is tyranny dressed in diplomacy.”
“Dialogue works the least well when it's telling you what's going on.”
“Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.”
“Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.”
Source: Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
“Dialogues between two sides can be more constructive and resultful than the third party that has only its interests on its agenda.”