Quotes About Communication

My own children wouldn't think of dropping in without calling to see if I'm busy.

But charm is not only being soft-spoken, relaxed, and at ease; it's wanting to be a giver. Wanting to be a good listener. Responding, communicating, having a genuine interest in people. It's having a good memory for amusing things so that you're a happy person to be with. Charm is grace — graciousness. And it all has to be real — good manners and good manners of the heart. Charm is a touch of magic. Try to make it a part of your way of life.

The poet Mary Oliver may have written the best definition of what it means to be a prophet in contemporary spirituality. She writes, "Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In later years, you fight because you do.

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

Capping means to follow up with something good or better in a conversation.

I cannot make speeches, Emma. . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more'" (E 3:13).

I'm going through hell," I cried, "and Steve wants me to be thankful he baked a pie." (272)

She knew she needed Lynn, so she wouldn't get angry at her. Jo's parents had taught her long ago that it was not safe to get angry at someone she depended on. (53)

Jo knew she had to be utterly truthful, even when her version of the truth conflicted with what Lynn wanted to hear. Truth was vital to Jo, because she had a hard enough time keeping track of the spotty reality she experienced.

She wanted to know about them, not to know them.

Anna turned away abruptly. "You needn't bother," she said. But the girl held her back. "No, don't go! Don't be such a goose. I want to know you! Don't you want to know me?

Listening to the testimony of a dying person or a grieving family member can serve the one speaking; it all depends on how we listen. Maybe we can reflect back the words and feelings in such a way that the speaker can at last really hear what he's said.

if we manipulate others into not sharing so we don't have to hear, so we don't have to listen, or if we react with horror or abandon the scene, we stifle our empathy and rob ourselves of this fundamental virtue of humanity.

Realizing fully the true nature of place is to talk its language and hold its silence.

Speaking in Creation's tongues, hearing Creation's voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has many voices. Those who understand that Earth is a living being know this because they have translated themselves to the humble grasses and old trees. They know that Earth is a community that is constantly talking to itself; a communicating universe. And whether we know it or not, we are participating in the web of this community.

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

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How do you prove to a woman that you loved her, when she was certain you didn't?

It just shows what strange things life throws at yer. It doesn't do to fall out with someone and say yer'll never speak to them again as long as yer live, because yer never know whether some day yer'll have to eat your words.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.