It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

Sometimes the best conversations between strangers allow the stranger to remain a stranger.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

To sit with one another and understand that although you may not always agree, you look beyond right and wrong to try and understand one another.

Appreciate the art of thoughtful disagreement.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

I constantly strive to learn and to make new and more powerful distinctions about ways to add value to other people’s lives.

A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.

Meetings should be great — they’re opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing. And it is, but only if treated as a rare delicacy.

One of the questions that John loved to pose was “when was your last great conversation with someone?” Good conversation chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade, and it penetrates the depths so as to soar unto unfolding possibility.

I’m drawn to conversation because in the best kind you don’t know where you’re going, only that you will get somewhere good.

Being a great conversationalist is about two things: creating intrigue and interest, and creating emotional connection.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called <i>thinking aloud</i>.