Quotes About Communication

My father used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [ Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa , 23 November 2004]

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and is willing to find out what they communicate.

Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation.

showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing. Gyana is not vi-gyana.

Teachers are as clueless as students.

Parrots can remember and repeat words and speak like human beings. But they do not understand what they are saying. As far as they are concerned, these are only sounds that humans have taught them to say.

One should have faith in one's friends and family and not let one harsh word break the bond of trust.

Those who believed they were righteous never listened.

both mythology and philosophy present the same idea: the former communicates through a story, along with symbols and rituals, while the latter uses precise language. Mythology creates a more visceral experience, and so appeals to everyone, not just the intellectual.

Empathy enables exchange

Thus, showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing. Gyana is not vi-gyana.

With new words are created new worlds, as they are vehicles of new ideas. They enable the process of expanding the mind. The

conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.

Thus, showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing.

Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.

Sometimes, you can see more than me, but you pretend to know less so that I don't feel intimidated by you. I do the same for you. We do not feel superior when the other is vulnerable; or inferior when we feel helpless. This is what sustains our relationship.

Those who are comfortable with imagination appreciate metaphors and symbols. Those who are not prefer the literal. Only through metaphors and symbols can one convey the conceptual. Without poetry, you cannot communicate ideas that are not material and measurable, like love, or justice or remarkability. But

The Gita we overhear is essentially that which is narrated by a man with no authority but infinite sight (Sanjaya) to a man with no sight but full authority (Dhritarashtra). This peculiar structure of the narrative draws attention to the vast gap between what is told (gyana) and what is heard (vi-gyana).

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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!