Quotes About Communication

Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids misses thirteen of them, to give him an 87 percent. But we go far beyond this. A student writes an essay on a sunset, let us say, and the teacher writes 87 percent at the top of that paper. What he is saying, in effect, is that there is a mathematical metaphor operative here. The figure of 87 is to 100 what this submitted essay is . . . to what? What on earth is this supposed to mean?

The trick is to state what we know in a recognizable fashion but in a way that is slightly off, in a way that arrests us.

Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven into the fabric of the story, and as this happens, the reader is woven in, right alongside the description. In giving advice to writers, E. L. Doctorow once said that good writing should communicate more than the mere fact that it is raining. The reader should feel rained on. A

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it doesn't just confuses everybody, starting with you. RECOMMENDED

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

So listening carefully is what I was taught all my life. When people don't listen, it's not that they don't learn, they just deny themselves tremendous opportunities and glorious choices." Steven Spielberg

May the world enjoy a year that is free of hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, drought, and political speeches, which produce the most wind of all.

I think I can communicate with kids because I don't try to communicate with kids. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.

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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not know the truth.

Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.

As an effective teacher, you must not only know that which you would teach—that is, your content—but you must also know those whom you wish to teach.

En el laboratorio hemos demostrado (Grinberg-Zylberbaum y J. Ramos, 1987) (ver siguiente capítulo) que cuando dos sujetos se comunican, el que posee mayor correlación interhemisférica (es decir, el más sintérgico y unificado) atrae hacia su nivel de coherencia al que posee menos correlación interhemisférica. Esta evidencia experimental sustenta y apoya las consideraciones antes expuestas.

Man is multiplied by the "number of languages" he possesses and speaks. (Los Viajes!)

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Dr.Laura's quote "A lot of problems would be solved,if we talk to each other instead about each other

Ludwig Wittgenstein: «Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo».

We teach people how to treat us

What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.

Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Money doesn't have to talk. It shouts with a whisper.

You gotta open the kid before you open the book.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.