Quotes About Communication

Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58

Haddon Robinson once said, "I have come closer to being bored out of the Christian faith than being reasoned out of it. I think we underestimate the deadly gas of boredom. It is not only the death of communication, but the death of life and hope.

Jesus was best known as a master of metaphor, a legendary storyteller, and a powerful healer who communicated in signs, images, and gestures. Therefore, to understand Jesus and the Scriptures, we need to train ourselves and others not to exegete more words but to exegete images.

What counts in evangelism is not cognition, but recognition. Can

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Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

E veramente accade che sempre dove manca la ragione suppliscono le grida[...]

Las ostras se abren por completo cuando hay Luna llena; y cuando los cangrejos ven una ostra abierta, tiran dentro de ella una piedrita o un trozo de alga, a fin de que la ostra no pueda volver a cerrarse y el cangrejo pueda devorarla. Este es también el destino de quien abre demasiado la boca, con lo cual se pone a merced del que lo escucha.

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Îngrijitorii trebuie s? se menÈ›in? spre calea spre autofocusare, indiferent de r?spunsul pe care îl primesc din partea celorlalÈ›i.

Pe parcursul recuper?rii, îngrijitorii trebuie s? continue s? cear? în mod direct s? li se împlineasc? nevoile È™i dorinÈ›ele È™i s? nu mai aÈ™tepte de la ceilalÈ›i s? ghiceasc? la fix care sunt aceste nevoi.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

I didn't know you were a techie, Mulder.' said Scully... 'I used to fool around with ham radios when I was a kid,' Mulder said, not looking up from his work. 'Let me guess why,' said Scully. 'Ever succeed in making contact with a spaceship?'... 'No,' said Mulder. 'But it wasn't from lack of trying.

Powiedz mi, ale szczerze - odezwa?a si? Scully, zmierzaj?c w stron? budynku. - Dlaczego rozsta?e? si? z Jerrym? - Bo jestem trudny. - Pytam powa?nie. - Nie jestem trudny? - Mulder, nie wyg?upiaj si?.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you wished to be loved doesn't mean that they don't love you with all that they've got.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.

Sometimes I feel like I'm choking to death on what I'm feeling. I need to talk and I don't even know how.

Wie kann ein Mann ein Ding lieben, das, ihm zum Trotze, auch denken will? Ein Frauenzimmer, das denket, ist ebenso ekel als ein Mann, der sich schminket. Lachen soll es, nichts als lachen, um immerdar den gestrengen Herrn der Schöpfung bei guter Laune zu halten.

been present as Lester's talks unfolded, so that you can be as open as possible to his deepest message. Lester came to this unique communication style for several reasons. His realization came quickly and