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Quotes About Communication

It is only with isvoshtchiki—the drivers of the little open droshkis which fulfil the function of cabs—that he is obliged to use the native tongue, and with them a very limited vocabulary suffices. The ordinal numerals and four short, easily-acquired expressions—poshol (go on), na pravo (to the right), na lyevo (to the left), and stoi (stop)—are all that is required.
~ Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you.
~ Donald Margulies
KAREN: Come on, honey, I'm mincing garlic and you're feeling amorous. Tell me: what am I supposed to do about this? GABE: You could try putting down the knife.
~ Donald Margulies
bob Brennan went on to become a fair dog handler, and he and Shep won several open trials, but he never forgot the slight woman working his dog, better than he could, out in the middle of nowhere; woman, dog, sheep moving with great precision, and she never repeated a request (Bob Brennan couldn't call them commands), and she spoke so soft - just Penny and Shep and the sky, stretching from Canada to Mexico, lighter blue at the rim than in the bowl overhead. She never forgot it either.
~ Donald McCaig
It is not the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's generics, not to impose man's will over dog's. It may be worth noting that many Scottish hill dogs never know the weight
~ Donald McCaig
I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
~ Donald Miller
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
~ Donald Norman
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.
~ Donald S. Whitney
But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Prayer involves communication in the spiritual realm. Many prayers are answered in ways that cannot be seen in the material realm. Many prayers are answered in ways different from what we asked. For a variety of reasons, after we open our eyes we do not always see tangible evidence of our prayers. When we are not vigilant, this tempts us to doubt the power of God through prayer.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Where God leads you to pray, He means you to receive.
~ Donald S. Whitney
But if God invites and expects all his children—regardless of their age, IQ, education, or resources—to do the same thing—to pray—then prayer has to be simple.
~ Donald S. Whitney
La oración es, en un sentido, la expresión de una relación continua del cristiano con el Padre.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Básicamente, lo que tú haces es tomar las palabras que se originaron en el corazón y la mente de Dios, y las haces circular a través de tu corazón y tu mente de regreso a Dios. De este modo, Sus palabras vienen a ser las alas para tus oraciones.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Thus when someone is born again, the Holy Spirit gives that person new Fatherward desires, a new heavenward orientation whereby we cry, "Abba, Father!" In other words, all those indwelled by the Holy Spirit really want to pray. The Holy Spirit causes all the children of God to believe that God is their Father and fills them with an undying desire to talk to him.
~ Donald S. Whitney
El método Los Salmos: fueron diseñados para ser orados. Gordon Wenham
~ Donald S. Whitney
Orar la Biblia es tan simple como ir a través del pasaje línea por línea, hablando con Dios acerca de todo aquello que venga a tu mente mientras lees el texto. ¿Ves cuán fácil es todo esto? Todos pueden hacerlo.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Si no entiendes el significado del versículo, ve al siguiente. Si el significado de ese versículo es muy claro, pero nada viene a tu mente para orar, pasa al siguiente. Solo habla con el Señor acerca de todo aquello que se te ocurre mientras lees la Palabra, sin prisa. Hazlo aun si —y esta parte del libro es, la más factible de ser mal interpretada— lo que viene a tu mente no tiene nada que ver con el texto.
~ Donald S. Whitney
So basically what you are doing is taking words that originated in the heart and mind of God and circulating them through your heart and mind back to God. By this means his words become the wings of your prayers.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Martin Luther expressed God's expectation of prayer this way: "As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."[2]
~ Donald S. Whitney
To pray the Bible, you simply go through the passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text.
~ Donald S. Whitney
In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.
~ Donald Sadoway