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Conversations Worth Having Quotes

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Bhuwan Thapaliya
“We spend almost all our time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to our conversation with ourselves. It’s not always what we hear but it’s our inner conversation with ourselves that shapes our life.”
Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

Jackie Stavros
“One of the most exciting things about life is the power of a single conversation to make a significant positive difference.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Jackie Stavros
“No matter how complex the challenge or problem you face at work, at home, or in your community, you can have a great conversation about it.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

“If you feel like you never have anything to say,
go out and do something
you'll want to
talk about.”
Liz Luyben

Jackie Stavros
“Conversations worth having energize people. They foster efficiency, fuel meaningful engagement, and generate creative possibilities.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Jackie Stavros
“Conversations worth having enliven people, strengthen relationships, unleash creativity, and move organizations forward fast.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Jackie Stavros
“Conversations are almost like breathing. Much of the time we are unaware of the nature of our conversations and their impact on our experience of being in a relationship and in the world.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Jackie Stavros
“Our conversations are fateful. What we think, say, and do influences every moment in our lives.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Jackie Stavros
“Our need to belong is one of the strongest drives we have; it can be more important than food or shelter for some.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Jackie Stavros
“Being intentional about listening takes practice. It means listening with an open mind, willing to entertain another’s ideas; listening with an open heart, willing to empathize with another person’s experience and understand a situation from his or her point of view; and listening with an openness to new possibilities and new ways of going forward.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Jackie Stavros
“Inquiry-based conversations aim to generate information or surface understanding. Questions that arise out of curiosity and genuine interest build relationships and often produce new knowledge or possibilities.”
Jackie Stavros, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Cheri Torres
“Appreciative conversations inspire belief in the possibility of a strong and loving relationship or a climate where people thrive.”
Cheri Torres, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Cheri Torres
“Conversations that value and connect people, uncover what is working, and stimulate images of the ideal future foster many of these emotions.”
Cheri Torres, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Cheri Torres
“Appreciative Inquiry–based conversations invite meaningful engagement and often lead to action that gives us a sense of accomplishment.”
Cheri Torres, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Cheri Torres
“Simply altering the way in which you frame a situation and the questions you ask will change any interaction and the outcome.”
Cheri Torres, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Cheri Torres
“Avoiding critical conversations does not mean we should avoid critical situations, mistakes, problems, or inappropriate behavior.”
Cheri Torres, Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Suzy  Davies
“A good children's book is conversation kids and parents share and talk about”
Suzy Davies

A.  Kirk
“I always figured Gloria, but mentioning my guardian angel didn’t seem prudent, so I shrugged ignorance and yawned.

“Sneezing works just as well, if not better.”

“What?” The stupid belt would not unbuckle.

“Yawning is adequate,” he said. “But when you get caught with a question you prefer not to answer, it is better to sneeze. Anyone who asked the question will usually say bless you in some form. The question is forgotten, and you move on unscathed.”

“Okay. Ah-choo.”

“Bless you. So where did the complex and ancient protection wards come from?”

“You said that would work on anyone.”

“I am not just anyone”
A. Kirk, Demons in Disguise

“A deep and genuine conversation across the table; May be that's what many of us need now.”
Sachinda Dulanjana

“Unless the LORD builds the house,
The builders labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over city,
The guards stand watch in vain.

Jinn had his back turned. Crouching, he was drawing something on the ground of rock? I was almost certain that the sign of the cross, once, the second time, the twentieth time - the infinitude.
- What do you think about my art of the crosses?
- Bona fide, the art of murdering. - I wasn't entirely sure, there was something I missed in this riddle.
- Think, if I will have thousands of faces and didn't want to show you the real one...?
- And??? Go on.... - Still vagueness or .... Well, I will never believe it!
Jinn turned suddenly, throwing sand in my eyes. Then he roared like a lion.”
Eve Janson, The Jinn Within: Solomon my King