Quotes About Communication

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Indeed, there are two times for most important statements or accusations: the expressive time, when we feel inwardly impelled to say or do them, and the impressive time, when they would be most helpful to their recipients. It is only in very mature and rightly beloved people that these two times regularly coincide.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong pace, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

The beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail.

Nobody knew what that sort of blather meant in the Sixties and nobody knows now.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Nah," I said to myslef, crumpling up the note, "Non vale il pene".

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them into form, to pass them on to anyone who may care to take them up.

A public which likes to hear something worthwhile when you talk would like to understand something worthwhile when it sees pictures.

Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse.

Think b4 tweeting pls.

One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

All parents want their children to be happy, but so few parents talk about it.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

A series of controlled experiments and field studies in organizations shows that when teams engage in conflict over ideas in an atmosphere of mutual respect, they develop better ideas and perform better .

When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.

The implication is that if you want to quell your inner jerk and avoid spreading (and catching) this form of asshole poisoning, use ideas and language that frame life in ways that will make you focus on cooperation.

Forgiveness is also important because, as a study of surgical errors found, "when a subordinate sees his technical errors are forgiven, he recognizes there is no incentive to hide them. He is less likely, therefore, to compound his problems by attempting to treat problems that are over his head for fear of superordinate reprisal.