Quotes About Communication

For if they do not receive the seed of good doctrines and share with their husbands in intellectual advancement, they, left to themselves, conceive many untoward ideas and low designs and emotions.

Apollo], whose oracle is in Delphi, neither speaks nor suppresses, but indicates.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.

And while it might seem to a parent that tattling is incessant, to a child that's not the case—because for every one time a child seeks a parent for help, there were fourteen other instances when he was wronged and did not run to the parent for aid.

Nobody is in sales anymore; they're in customer relationship management. Nobody is in marketing, they're in customer engagement.

One of my many weaknesses as a journalist is that I can't ask perfect strangers about the masturbation habits of their ex-spouses, just me being a stuffed shirt again.

Podría dar la fórmula química de la lágrima. Pero sería una tontería. Todos sabemos que la lágrima no es nada más que unas letras mayúsculas y unos números chiquititos, un líquido que sirve para lavar el globo ocular. La lágrima lava también otras cosas. A veces es una pregunta. A veces es una respuesta. Pero siempre es un mensaje. Y nace lejos de los ojos.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

You're sweet, Leo," said Jaya. "But how do you know the you in the world where I'm not me isn't saying the exact same thing to the not-me me right now?" "I don't. But I don't care what he's saying because he's not me. He's just some other guy saying something to some other girl who isn't you. Or maybe he's the girl and you're a guy in which case he's some other girl saying something to some other guy who isn't you," I said. "It has nothing to do with us.

I have been through so much, I wanted to say, but the words were tangled in my throat.

I hope that what you are after is an exchange … not a reaction.

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating. -Poul_Anderson

Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.

Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari. (Mama, 84)

Menulis adalah sebuah keberanian...

Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.

Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun ? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari.

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