Things Hosts Do

Absorb A Blow

Are Better At The Edges

Are Better The Second Time

Become Interesting After Midnight

Become More Interesting The Closer You Get

Become More Precious When They End

Begin As Questions

Carry A Message

Change When Someone Walks In

Close A Door

Connect

Create Common Ground

Create More Than They Contain

Create More Than They Cost

Create Ripples

Drift

End Without A Period

Exist To Be Opened

Expand

Expand In An Empty One

Feel Dull

Feel Like A Record Scratch

Feel Like Déjà Vu

Feel Like Progress

Feel Sparse

Feel Unfinished

Leave Before The Name

Make A Day Feel Shorter

Make A Place Feel Human

Make Presence Visible

Make Scale Human

Make Waiting Easier

Move And Stay Put

Move Without Leaving

Need A Container

Need A Human Scale

Need Salt

Negotiate

Occupy Time

Only Get Said Out Loud

Quietly Negotiate

Redirect

Reduce Distance

Repay Attention

Resist Compression

Reward Approximation

Reward Attention

Reward Curiosity

Reward Depth

Reward Flexibility

Reward Improvisation

Reward Participation

Reward Presence

Transfer Information

Turn Out To Matter

Turn Strangers Into History

Things You Only Hear In Silence

conversation

dad joke

goat

chatter

slang

listening

paying attention

creativity

sarcasm

trivia

name

synchronization

anagram

voice

oversharing

introvert

small talk

design

well

agreeing

agreement

awkwardness

parenting

Tourette's Syndrome

cat owner

being ignored

eye contact

taking turns

neurodiversity

interruption

talking about oneself

being tired

is a fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

is a traffic... and if you enter into it without some stock of knowledge to balance the account perpetually betwixt you, then the trade drops at once.

Conversation is a traffic... and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to balance the account perpetually betwixt you,-- the trade drops at once: and this is the reason why travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,-- owing to their [the natives'] suspicion that there is nothing to be extracted from the conversation worth the trouble of their bad language. Laurence Sterne

is an art marked by a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is an art whose highest perfection is to listen closely and reply well.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is an gift that lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. Jean de la Bruyere

is fruitful of knowledge between friends only if they think only of the matter under consideration and forget they are friends.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

is generally disagreeable because both parties are thinking more about what they intend to say than about what others are saying.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is like the table of contents of a dull book. All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

Conversation is like the table of contents of a dull book. . . . All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance. Stendhal

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