The techniques of opening ordspråk

en The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
  John Steinbeck

en pushing the edge of the envelope to attract attention, but it's the wrong subject at the wrong time. He's been going nowhere fast for a long time, and while this may draw fleeting attention, it won't save his faltering career.

en [T]he sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
  William James

en I've been with him in public; he's almost annoyingly nice, ... He'll sit there and hold a conversation with people that want to talk football. The next thing you know, they're talking baseball, they're talking, 'Where are you from?' That's just the kind of guy he is. Everywhere I go with him, he ends up holding an extended conversation with a stranger.

en I've been with him in public; he's almost annoyingly nice. He'll sit there and hold a conversation with people that want to talk football. The next thing you know, they're talking baseball, they're talking, 'Where are you from?' That's just the kind of guy he is. Everywhere I go with him, he ends up holding an extended conversation with a stranger.

en At some point, I would just love to sit down and have a conversation with him and say 'Bruce, what happened and where did this all go wrong for you'. I think I have a relationship with him, that he would have that conversation with me.

en Richard P. McCormick was one of the luminaries of the Rutgers history department. I met him when I was first hired at Rutgers in 1974. He befriended me from the time I arrived. I drove out to see him only last week. We had an hour-long conversation, a wonderful conversation. I promised to come back. I didn't think it would be so soon.

en I lost my child. Her children lost their mother. Her father lost a daughter. Her grandmother lost a grandchild.

en Her family has lost a mother and a wife. Social Democracy has lost one of its most gifted politicians. The government has lost a skilled politician and a good colleague. Sweden has lost its face towards the world,

en Your house is essentially having a conversation with a stranger - hopefully a buyer. It's the same thing in social circles; you don't talk about controversial things with a stranger.

en She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech
  George Bernard Shaw

en People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
  Edward R. Murrow

en I think when I hired her last year, we had that conversation that I knew her desire was to be a head coach and that her time at the University of Denver wouldn't be very long.

en It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when you have already lost.

en Every government has lost its virginity in this area (and) I am sure that it will come up in conversation between the leaders,


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