Quotes About Communication

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Bright is the ring of wordsWhen the right man rings them.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Yet why not say what happened?

The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that he had them on "hold," a curious expression since it was the first time in half an hour he hadn't been holding one.

One peep out of you, and I'll use you for a U-bend under my bathroom sink, holes or no holes, savvy?

Aahz hesitedted, then shugger. "A quater of a milion eatch". "A QUATER OF A MILION???" My voice had not hit that note since my voice changed. "We had not told him", my partner sighed. "I was afraid that if he knew what the stakes are he would clutch." "A quater of a milion" I repeated, a bit hoaser this time. "See?" Ahzz Grinned. "You are cluching.

how good are you with sign languish?" "Quite competent within a very narrow range, sir" said Bekker. "I'm certain I can communicate hostility and frustration with no risk of misunderstanding. More complex matter might exead my abilities.

He scolds the whole staff when one person is late for a meeting

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

But laboratory, radiology, and pathology results were computerized relatively early (many hospitals and clinics did so in the 1990s), and some healthcare systems began experimenting with giving patients access to them.21 While this information was less fraught than doctors' notes, many in the medical establishment still worried about how patients might handle seeing such results unfiltered.