Quotes About Communication

the more people were listening, the more he tended to forget what he intended to say and go off on tangents. In truth, he had to admit that sometimes he rambled a bit with only a few listeners.

Let a woman know you were nervous, and she put her own construction on it, and sympathy went right out the window.

Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

Women do not become exhausted," Haman said, "they only exhaust others.

They're too busy staring at one another to turn full attention on me.

If the world's ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

me, and went away." "They looked at you," Mat said with a grin, "like you

language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.

The way we're going to be a better company is by your working on yourself, and helping others work on themselves.

unexplained pauses

Weißt du, diese ganzen Small-talk Fragen, sie funktionieren nicht mehr. Hast du Kinder? Wo leben deine Eltern? Was macht dein Mann? Wie viele Brüder und Schwestern hast du? Sport, Wetter, Arbeit... Die ganze Palette. Es funktioniert einfach nicht mehr. Aber die Macht der Gewohnheit, nicht wahr? (Lori)

Las palabras tienen el poder de volverte rico o pobre. Si quieres ser rico, aprende las palabras que te prepararán para ello. Lo mejor de todo es que… las palabras no cuestan.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.

In accounting', rich dad would say, 'It's not the numbers , but what the numbers are telling you. It's just like words. It's not the words, but the story the words are telling you.

listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of everyday reality. In order to understand them we have to make adjustments to comprehend a poetic form of expression that is sometimes elusive but actually far more expressive than the world of facts.

It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain

the connecting fibers of the corpus callosum;

But it's better to know a lot and say little, I think, than know a little and say a lot.

Writing now makes me feel as if I had lost at least one of my senses. I can't hear you or see you and I wonder if you hear me. One thing is quite sure. I love you. Yours, George.

Core to leadership is the ability to relate to people—to empathize, understand, inspire, and motivate.

President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it is a bureaucracy." Don