Discussion Quotes

Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

Political correctness kills discussion.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.

For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.

We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces. All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

I will never try to steer myself into a situation that I know might create a discussion after the race any protest immediately cuts down on my social hours after the race is over.

The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

A good rule for discussion is to use hard facts and a soft voice.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

The discussion of fur is childish.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.

Electing pro-choice Republican women can help foster a discussion that reflects the full spectrum of views and can lead to a more balanced and responsible public dialogue.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.