Quotes About Communication

Shit," Pablo says.

Why do women love to talk about love?" Giorgio asks. "Why don't men, is more the question," Ana says.

Shut up! We can't hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis

You have any questions, come to me, but don't have any questions. Are there any questions?

So weit ist es jetzt also schon gekommen, denkt sie, während sie die Ergebnisse überfliegt - Wir brauchen Google, um unsere Eltern zu finden.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Poor feedback can be worse than no feedback at all, because it is distracting, uninformative, and in many cases irritating and anxiety-provoking.

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

One of the beautiful things about words is that you can put words together which in isolation mean nothing, or mean only what the dictionary says they mean, and you put them together and you get extraordinary effects.

I think that the effort is to reach a realm of meaning that is not quite sayable. You stay away from what can be said and you try to reach what cant quite be said. Yet it is nevertheless meaningful. And there is such a realm and it is very difficult to talk about. Its not quite nonverbal, but that comes fairly close.

I certainly dont write to exclude anyone.

I am never needlessly obscure--I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

However much the writer might long to be, in his work, simple, honest, and straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, and straightforward, nothing much happens: he speaks the speakable, whereas what we are looking for is the as-yet unspeakable, the as-yet unspoken.

Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

You must change the people you are speaking to so that you appear, to yourself, to be still alive.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans.

The sclera—the white of the eye—affects attraction. No other primates have white scleras. Their scleras are dark, hiding their direction of gaze from predators, and from members of their own species—for whom a stare can be a threat.40 The white sclera of the human eye advertises gaze direction, making it a tool for social communication. It also advertises emotion and health.

The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke An idiom too dated, Audenesque.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached.

Bobbi doubted there was ever much future for a couple who had nothing in common except heterosexuality.

Zachary's partner, a younger man with a moustache named Freedly— Well, no. The man was named Freedly. Zachary's partner, a younger man named Freedly with a moustache— Zachary's partner, a moustached younger man named Freedly— Freedly said, "Have you got the ring on you?