“A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.” MenShouldHumansAnimalTalkingConversationFunctionFewerHuman AnimalBusiness Man Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? - has a kind of fun appeal.” BelieveKindFunLevelsMorningSawsInvolvedConversationNewsFunctionAppealsBlogs Author:Nora Ephron
“Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.” HumansImportantOur LivesConversationSpeechFunctionMeaningfulMeaninglessFillingVacuums Author:Lidiya Ginzburg
“The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.” UseConversationTravelFunctionFruitOccasional Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.” ThinkingWorldWellsMayArtStillsSeemsEyeMoralProgressPoetConversationIntellectualFunctionEngagedLackingAvoidedLingeringRegressionHere We Go Again Author:Fady Joudah
“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsChildrenFeelingsTogetherCertainValuesEnjoyAnswersInterestingLevelsSuccessfulParticularConversationFunctionOur ChildrenMoodScalesFactorsMathematicalYour ChildrenMealsItemsGood MealsInteresting Conversation Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo