Quotes About Communication

Where did all the words go?" I asked. "They just wasted away," my mom explained, " like a leg you never walk on.

Are animals lonely? Other animals, I mean.

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.

Once when she was just learning to talk, I ran my hand across her face, naming every part of it. Later, when I put her in the crib, she called me back. First, she asked for water, then for milk, then for kisses. "It hurts. Don't go," she said. "What does? What hurts, sweetie?" She paused. "My eyelashes.

In America, the participating partner is likely to spend an average of 1,000 hours processing the incident with the hurt partner. This cannot be rushed.

There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.

We had told people. We had to untell them. You did it so I wouldn't have to speak.

In those last weeks, we drove without talking, trying to outride the heat, each alone in the dream the city had become. I was afraid to speak, to touch his arm even.

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.

There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m. One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, all the other wives think. Never.

One day in the Little Theater of Hurt Feelings the husband announces that he would like to try a separation. The wife is stunned. He has said nothing to her until now. But the shrink discourages it. "You might as well just get divorced," she says.

What Wittgenstein said: What you say, you say in a body; you can say nothing outside of this body.

Ben is used to my all talk, no action ways, but it took a long time to bank all that goodwill.

What did you do today, you'd say when you got home from work, and I'd try my best to craft an anecdote for you out of nothing.

Believe none of what you hear. Half of what you see. And everything you write.

Then the green man's face grew even blacker, the red beard so red it seemed to crackle and sparkle like fir twigs on the fire; the mouth contracted to an arrow-like point before it opened to inquire in the sweetest, gentlest tones.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

The 2009 "pandemic," which was not really a pandemic at all, taught us that language is both a weapon and a handicap when waging a campaign against influenza.

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on – appreciate your wife!

Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.

The problem is that social media, which is seen as the pulse of the nation, is actually nothing of the sort. It's the pulse of the young and the idealistic.

Design isn't about getting your way, it's not about being a great genius or auteur who is followed by everyone else on the team, and it's not even about doing a great job of communicating your vision to the rest of the team. Design isn't about you; it is about the project. Working as a game designer is about collaborating with the rest of the team, compromising, and above all listening.

Gain people's emotional commitment to the strategy Any strategy, however brilliant, will fail unless people understand it and are emotionally committed to its success. Therefore it is crucial to explain why the strategy is important to the organisation and the individual.