Quotes About Communication

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Who knows but that all the men to whom reference has been made, and a multitude of others who lived in by-gone ages borrowed their wise sayings from the talk of the firesides and the conversations of the market places; so that the origin of many proverbs now flippantly quoted in the converse of men is lost in the mists of forgotten centuries.

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

But as Mark Twain once observed, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is as the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. So do strive for that right word!

The preceding chapter tells you how to communicate with your readers. With words. What should you as a fiction writer communicate? Feelings.

Feeling tells you what you want to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it.

In general, the trick is to bring the past forward into the present, so that you describe what happens in past tense instead of past perfect.

The lesson here is, don't try to cram too much into one sentence; and the issue lies less in length than it does in content. Any time you feel the need to explain some aspect of your basic sentence, take pause. Odds are that what's bothering you really calls for an additional sentence or two or three, so that you can keep your developing line of thought straight and clear and simple.

To get maximum effect, put adverbs at the beginning or end of the sentence: "Angrily, he walked away." Or, "He walked away angrily." Though special cases may justify "He walked angrily away," or the like, most often the effect of the modifier upon the reader is lost.

And so it goes with words and language. They're tools. All your writing life, you work with them . . . using them to tie your reader to your story.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

If u can't get along with Dravid, u're struggling in life

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

I'm a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I've always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.