Quotes About Communication

Dubliners talk to each other very easily. We talk as though getting back to it, after some interruption.

A Papa az ír nyugaton nÅ'tt fel - mindig is tudta, mi a helyes. Tökéletes modora volt. Ami szerintem nagyjából abból allt, hogy soha, senkinek semmit nem mondott.

If you can't see that your own culture has its own set of interests, emotions, and biases, how can you expect to deal successfully with someone else's culture?

I hate it when people insist on wrangling with you about something, then try to stop as soon as they see the arguments are no longer going all their way.

Because paper has more patience than people.

Too often, women are loath to demand their partners wear condoms for fear it will be a turnoff.

One of the first lessons I learned after marriage was, "Don't lie, but don't tell everything". It allows a certain amount of dignity to remain in the relationship. It is also a kindness.

De Maes went to see him and learned that L'Amoral himself was planning to write to Clusius, to send him a bulb of the martagon pomponii

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. MATTHEW 6:8

The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. EXODUS 33:11

Put the brakes on any runaway mental conversations you may be having with those who have wounded you.

Would the contagious cycle of pain in your life, or that of your family or church, be stopped if you would be the first to reach out, to give in, to say you are sorry, or at the very least open up a conversation on the source of the wounds?

Pray continually. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:17

Communication is what the Holy Spirit excels in. When we don't know what to say, He does. When we don't know what to ask for, He does. When we don't know how to express the depths of our feelings, He does.

authentically. I am deeply motivated to know God. I want to know Him as He truly is, not through the distorted reflection of those who called themselves by His name. And I want to make Him known to others as accurately, winsomely, clearly, and compellingly as I can.

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. JOB 33:31

Heroic origin stories and polemical counterstories may give us momentary emotional satisfaction by inviting us to despise cartoonish renderings of our perceived rivals and enemies. The price we all pay, though, is tunnel vision, mutual recrimination, and stalemate. For the sake not just of the science but of all the suffering people whom the science should be serving, it is time for us all to learn and to tell better, more honest stories.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.

David thought living in a house was very difficult. It was not the house itself--that was lovely to be in--but the people. What was so difficult about them was that they constantly seemed to expect him to say and do things he would never have though of, and what appeared sensible and natural to him seemed to surprise them...

We can hear a wider range of frequencies than we can speak, but the frequencies to which the external auditory canal are most sensitive lie roughly int he middle of our hearing range, around 1000-3000 Hz. In other words, at normal volume, we detect the middle frequencies more easily than the high ones. In this way human beings have developed the most favourable capacities for speaking to and hearing each other.

His interviews revealed that the majority of Sak's employees, half of Macy's, but only one-fifth of Klein's sounded the 'r' clearly, bearing out his theory that a more emphasized 'r' was now the more prestigious pronunciation, and that social class is inscribed in the pronunciation of even a single sound.

No other mammal produces even a fraction of the kind of original vocal play that human babies do.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.