Conversations Quotes

• Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

  

  Josephine Hart
  • Love
  • Imaginary
  • Conversations

• I just take the Cleveland Browns - we are a very close football team. We care about each other, and we understand each other, and we have conversations on everything under the sun.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Sun
  • Conversations
  • Football Team

• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Song
  • Play

• The natural state of mammals is to be somewhat on guard. However, in order to feel emotionally close to another human being, our defensive system must temporarily shut down. In order to play, mate, and nurture our young, the brain needs to turn off its natural vigilance . . . Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while others are too numb to absorb new experiences — or to be alert to signs of real danger . . . Many people feel safe as long as they can limit their social contact to superficial conversations, but actual physical contact can trigger intense reactions. However … achieving any sort of deep intimacy — a close embrace, sleeping with a mate, and sex — requires allowing oneself to experience immobilization without fear. It is especially challenging for traumatized people to discern when they are actually safe and to be able to activate their defenses when they are in danger. This requires having experiences that can restore the sense of physical safety.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experiences
  • Safe
  • Human being

• The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

  

  Barry Mazur
  • Humanity
  • Mathematics
  • Conversations

• Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time. Suddenly we had become these people who didn't drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.

  

  Ben Doller
  • Death
  • My Wife
  • Guaranteed

• It's refreshing, if you ask me, to have lengthy conversations with clear, brilliant minds about books, art, and what ought to happen next and how. I love it.

  

  Josh Malerman
  • Books
  • Conversations
  • Refreshing

• Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Habit
  • Improvement
  • Americans

• That's the thing about sleepwalking . You can walk, eat, have conversations and even drive cars in perfect safety. The danger comes from waking up too quickly.

  

  Erin Kelly
  • Safety
  • Danger
  • Sleepwalking

• The answer runs counter to some important aspects of U.S. culture— we must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Culture
  • Conversations
  • Counter

• You can now share your story anonymously much more easily than you could earlier and you can watch people have conversations about it. And when people come out and say negative things about you, there will be other people who have had similar experiences or who know people who have had similar experiences who will defend you.

  

  Ellen Pao
  • Experiences
  • Defend
  • Negative Things

• I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Community
  • Face
  • Continue

• I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.

  

  Scotty Bowman
  • Players
  • Relationships
  • Conversations

• Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.

  

  Angel Grant
  • Change
  • Conversations
  • Meals

• We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Help
  • Philosophy
  • Conversations

• I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points.

  

  Ryan North
  • Example
  • Obviously
  • Villains

• Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Gap
  • Chess Games
  • Fertilization

• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Relationship
  • Public
  • Gender

• In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.

  

  William Poundstone
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Conversations

• I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

  

  Ray Conniff
  • Friends
  • Artist
  • About

• We're committed to NATO. From the conversations I've already had with President Donald Trump over the phone, he has shown to me his commitment to NATO as well.

  

  Theresa May
  • Donald Trump
  • Conversations
  • NATO

• Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Friendship
  • Lifetime
  • Conversations

• We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Hearts
  • Opinions

• In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Listen
  • Invented
  • My Daughter

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