"In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds."

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Source : Deborah Tannen (2012). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, p.26, Ballantine Books

Deborah Tannen

#Mind Quotes #Doe Quotes #Smashing Quotes

“We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet. I just find it really shitty that someone who never really produced anything, musically speaking, can just say, "I don't really like it." It just sucks because you put so much work into a record and someone disapproves.”

Source : Source: archive.alternativenation.net
“Marketing is designed to bring people into something.”
“Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful”
“Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.”
“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”
“I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.”
“I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.”

Source : "Maine (Celebrate the States)". Book by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, 2010.
“Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.”

Source : "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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