Great minds

Eleanor Roosevelt once said:
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

If you look at Jesus' teachings, he discussed ideas, visions, great perspectives on God's kingdom.
If you look at great leaders throughout history, they focused on ideas, dreams, hopes, plans to create a new and better world.
What do we discuss in our conversations?
Do we spend time discussing great ideas, like justice and peace, like wisdom and faith?
Do we focus most of our time on discussions about events, like the election or the economy?
Or do we spend large amounts of our time talking about people? There is a danger when we focus our conversations solely on other peope, for it does not take long for our talk to become competitive or critical or sharp tongued. How do we speak about others in ways that are charitable and encouraging, open-minded and compassionate?