conversation

We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

i always like to touch base with men who i can relate to.

Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it__l magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone knows it__ there. Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going wrong only makes matters worse. It__ like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, 'The only reason it won__ heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.' How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly.

The most animated talks we have are about_things

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don__ have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you__e one-on-one with the topic at hand.

Do you ever lose the ego?_ Westford asks me.__eah._ When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation?

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. __our hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we__e out of purgatory for the weekend.___aybe later,_ I murmur, still distracted by the day__ previous events.__o, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested._ __uh?_ I say.

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.

I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.