“The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.” IfsWayYearsFirstsFilmCuttingSeeingConversationMachinesFinalsIf I CouldEditingEditedOld WaysAvid Author:Walter Murch
“Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.” WayRealInformationInternetConversationMessagesOne WayBloggingDump Author:Indra Nooyi
“I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!” WayBelieveEndsFunnyFoundI BelieveTermHoursFlowerConversationImportanceIntimateThoughtfulClientsUncertainFunny ThingsUrgencyNicheBloggingIntimate Conversation Author:Tom Peters
“But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.” IfsKnowsWayWritingI CanDifferentHomeWould BeCreativeConversationYeahScriptsDifferent WaysBe CreativeReally HappyAntenna Author:Josh Radnor
“The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.” IfsWayDesirePurposeValuesInfluenceYouthConversationSpeakersHonorableEloquenceCountrymenAmerican Youth Author:George Frisbie Hoar
“Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.” KnowsWayTurnsCommunitySituationConversationSpeechVariousAppropriateSpeakersGrammar Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
“We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.” WayTwoEnoughHelpingThreeSituationDangerousConversationSolutionsDiscussionFlawsGood EnoughThree ThingsNot Good Enough Author:Edward Felten
“Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."” WayGivingImportantMatterDoneMomentsSpaceAnswersSilenceTalkingPracticeConversationSpeechRegardMeaningfulNativeMakersNative AmericanPausesSilence IsPolitenessConductingCourteousNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomMoment Of SilenceLakotaGiving Time Author:Luther Standing Bear