Quotes About Communication

I warned him many times. I warned him in words, in deed and in every possible way.

Amid the hectic rounds of his life, Rockefeller always found time to send letters and small, thoughtful gifts to Packard and Giles to buck up their morale.

As he abandoned his fearful attitude toward the press, he loosened up, as if liberated by the change.

Perhaps language was the key—it was hard to say. Certainly I was astonished to find how few Cypriots knew good English, and how few Englishmen the dozen words of Greek which cement friendships and lighten the burdens of everyday life.

A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

A few years later, in Inukjuak, I learned that SFU is the Inuit texting acronym for snowmobile fucked up, and that POOS is the acronym for passed out on snowmobile.

Had the Chinese been more open about the disease when it first appeared, many people might have spared.

He had the unfortunate combination of being garrulous without being articulate.

Mon père ne m'a pas appris la langue des femmes de son peuple.

You spend way too much time confusing silence with strength.

He thought of asking her, but for no reason he could name, the silence between them seemed too hard to break.

Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble.

No one talked, but they all said plenty.

Ninety percent of asking questions is about listening to answers.

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.

Dealing with morons Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is like teaching Hindu to a beagle.

The most unbearable type of anger is a woman's—do anything to avoid it.

You tell a lot of lies, Ms. Berenson," he said. Berenson said nothing. Neagley said, "She's Human Resources. It's what they do.

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning. I

Some officers of his acquaintance had barked and yelled and shouted. He had always found it more effective to speak low and quiet, enunciating clearly and precisely as if to an idiot child, bearing down with an icy stare. That way he had found the implied menace to be unmistakable.

OK," Reacher said. "It wasn't a colonel. It was a one-star general.

I know," I said. "You already don't respect me because you saw me naked.

People who say no right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying no but generally they stop and think about it first. And they add sorry or something like that. Maybe they come out with some questions of their own. It's human nature. They say, Sorry, no, why, what happened?

There was nothing she had neglected to tell him, nothing he had neglected to tell her. People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.