“Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.” KnowsI CanFeelingsUnderstandingCommunityMy OwnGroupsShareCommunicationConversationUnderstoodDepthDefinedIntimacyMutualLacking Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
“I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.” KnowsYearsPersonsSocialBornMy OwnKnow HowConversationMovedShyAwkwardnessFew FriendsShy PersonCopenhagenBangaloreSocial Awkwardness Author:Deepika Padukone
“I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."” WritingYearsSaidShowsMy OwnWalksComedySceneTenConversationEnglandLondonPerformingCheerAuditionsJimmyChattingComedy ShowsSpringboards Author:Shelley Long
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.” PeopleMenBookRunningGamesMy OwnPleasureCompanyHabitConversationResourcesInnocentTendenciesDrySensibleInstructionBoresTirePipeOpiumSmokersPraiseworthy Book:Collected Short Stories Source: Collected Short Stories
“The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsIdeasRealFeelingsMy OwnTalkingHonestListeningInternetConversationEntertainmentBeing HonestIntimateApartment Author:Grace Helbig
“When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.” UseFeltMy OwnResponsibilityTeachingStudentsConversationRaisesBarsPhrasesEngagedClassroomVocabularyCritiqueRaising The Bar Author:Tim Gunn