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With so much racial tension and issues between the police and black and minority ethnic groups, there needs to be more in-depth conversations if we're going to fix anything.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Needs
Police
Black
Minority
More
Tension
Between
Issues
Fix
Going
Anything
In-Depth
Conversations
Racial
Much
Ethnic
Ethnic Groups
Groups
Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.
Clay Clark
You
Management
Humor
Remove
Unpleasant
Tension
Most
Prove
Conversational
Conversations
Need
The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.
Clive Thompson
People
Down
Other
Out
Tend
Most
Talking
Always
Answering
Questions
Get
Being
Conversations
Social
Themselves
Engaging
Productive
Who
Helpful
Thinkers
Since my article in 'Women's Health' came out, I have had so many conversations with women about their own battles with cancer, and it feels so empowering to open up this dialogue and learn from each other.
Cobie Smulders
Health
Women
Cancer
Own
Other
Battles
Out
About
Open
Had
Since
Feels
Empowering
Learn
Dialogue
Came
Up
Article
Conversations
Many
Each
I hired a publicist once I got cast in 'Passing Strange,' and one of the first conversations we had was about how I wanted to handle talking about my sexuality. I said, 'It's never been an issue for me. I want to talk about my work, but if something about myself relates to my work, of course I'll talk about it.'
Colman Domingo
Work
Myself
Me
Strange
First
Relates
Once
Sexuality
About
Something
Cast
Never
Had
Talk
Talking
Course
Said
Got
How
Passing
Issue
Hired
Been
Handle
Want
Wanted
Conversations
Publicist
I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.
Connie Nielsen
Good
You
Gun
Situation
Threat
Angeles
Something
Physically
Had
Know
Also
Well
Learned
Because
Female
How
Los
Came
Los Angeles
Very
Trained
Handle
Behave
Handy
Just
Again
Conversations
Agents
Many
Basic
Portland
For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
Dana Perino
Women
World
Better
Remember
Problems
Dinner
Long
Nothing
Dramatically
Worse
Some
About
Seemingly
Seems
Having
Unsolvable
Generations
True
Over
Disasters
Policy
Around
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Been
Debates
Get
Conversations
Aspects
It's nice when there's stuff in the middle of the table. That's when the best conversations start to happen.
Daniel Humm
Best
Nice
Table
Stuff
Middle
Happen
Conversations
Start
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
Daniel Lubetzky
Change
Build
Become
Other
Side
Our
Those
Impact
More
Empathy
Leaders
Understand
Opinions
Effective
Hearty
Different
Conversations
Us
Much
Engage
Who
Necessarily
Humans
Muscle
Need
I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.
Dave Goldberg
Time
Day
Me
People
Walk
Try
Meetings
Minimum
Find
Someone
Restrict
Talk
Am
Lot
Lots
Up
Grab
Just
Where
Informal
Conversations
Available
Waste
Need
Desk
All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.
David Archuleta
Mom
Me
Speak
Patient
Side
Carry
Slowly
Conversations
Spanish
Them
Grandparents
Speaks
When I'm out for a walk or out shopping, then I'll probably have 20 different conversations a day with people about Blackburn Rovers. You can't really escape from it. I am still really proud to come from Blackburn. It is a place I still hold very dear to my heart, which is why I want to stay here.
David Dunn
Day
You
Heart
People
Shopping
Walk
Out
Stay
About
Come
Proud
Am
Dear
Still
Very
Escape
Different
Want
Hold
Place
Which
Conversations
Then
Really
Why
Here
What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.
David Grinspoon
History
Earth
Ourselves
About
Part
Geological
Going
Conversations
Interested
Means
View
I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.
David J. C. MacKay
Future
People
Will
Energy
Our
Would
About
Constructive
Lifestyles
Like
Understand
How
How Much
Get
Modern
Where
Decide
Conversations
Much
Use
Choose
Help
Help People
Need
Honest
To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.
David J. C. MacKay
Needs
World
Calm
Energy
About
Constructive
Take
Look
Options
Conversations
Numbers
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
David K. E. Bruce
Health
Knowledge
President
State
Photographs
Entirely
Articles
Conversations
Newspaper
Roosevelt
Derived
I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
David M. Kelley
You
People
Problem
Difficult
Other
Side
Benevolent
Way
Enthusiastic
More
Involve
Opinion
Always
Handle
Get
Personal
Just
Being
Conversations
Your
Transparent
Found
There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.
David Whyte
Tough
Daughter
Difficult
Relate
Someone
Adolescent
Parent
Attempting
Almost
Between
Longer
Most
Partly
Because
Always
Conversations
Who
Many
In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.
Deborah Tannen
People
World
Try
Others
Negotiations
Seek
Give
Push
Attempts
Support
Reach
Protect
Closeness
Confirmation
Which
Conversations
Them
Themselves
Away
Consensus
My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.
Deborah Tannen
Women
Men
Differences
Research
Backgrounds
Between
Linguistic
Women And Men
Different
Grew
Conversations
Interest
Regional
Ethnic
Speakers
Early
Career
The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.
Deborah Tannen
Me
You
Woman
Problem
Light
Focus
Same Thing
Say
Response
Hierarchy
Tells
About
Resulting
Troubles
Adult
Feel
Between
Know
Talk
Also
Sheds
Another
How
Hears
Versus
Contrasting
Personal
Same
Happens
Conversations
Frustrations
Them
Connection
Thing
The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.
Deborah Tannen
Family
History
Words
Long
Members
Only
Long History
Share
Also
How
Family Members
Listeners
Conversations
Them
Speakers
Choose
Interpret
As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.
Deborah Tannen
Work
People
Differences
Research
Ways
Berkeley
John
Inspired
Know
Talk
California
Robin
How
Method
Affect
Cultural
Listen
Want
Conversations
Naturally
University
University Of California
I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.
Deepika Padukone
Happy
Old
Year
Few
Own
Born
My Own
Know
Make
Always
How
Year-Old
Came
Friends
Person
Did
Just
Moved
Conversations
Social
Copenhagen
Awkwardness
Shy
Shy Person
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.
Douglas Rushkoff
You
Cell Phone
Phones
People
Phone
Mind
Lover
Other
Enough
Sign
Table
Open
Puts
Putting
Prospective
Know
Likely
Make
Client
Off
Close
Cell
Conversations
Them
Realize
Turned
Ask
Turning
Less
Even
Away
Start
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
Edvard Munch
People
Relatives
Will
Difficult
Earth
Find
Religious
Religious People
Rate
Conceive
Continue
Friends
Any
Afterlife
Conversations
Many
Believing
Here
Hereafter
Christians
Interrupted
Imagine
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