Quotes About Communication

If you're like most people, you were pretty surprised by these results. Most of us aren't aware of the wide range of what these words mean to different people. We assume that when we use a term, other people use it in the same way we do and mean the same thing we do.

People didn't even agree on what the terms always and never meant! If you're like most people, you were pretty surprised by these results. Most of us aren't aware of the wide range of what these words mean to different people. We assume that when we use a term, other people use it in the same way we do and mean the same thing we do.

It's embarrassing when someone tells you that you have something stuck in your teeth. It's more embarrassing when that stuff stays stuck in your teeth because no one told you. By "being kind" and keeping what they see from you, they inadvertently deny you the chance to get the spinach out of your teeth.

Be thankful when people disagree with you in good faith because they are being kind when they do.

Be a data sharer. That's what experts do. In fact, that's one of the reasons experts become experts. They understand that sharing data is the best way to move toward accuracy because it extracts insight from your listeners of the highest fidelity.

When we have a negative opinion about the person delivering the message, we close our minds to what they are saying and miss a lot of learning opportunities because of it. Likewise, when we have a positive opinion of the messenger, we tend to accept the message without much vetting. Both are bad.

We would be better served as communicators and decision-makers if we thought less about whether we are confident in our beliefs and more about how confident we are. Instead of thinking of confidence as all-or-nothing (" I'm confident" or "I'm not confident"), our expression of our confidence would then capture all the shades of grey in between.

Terms that express likelihoods mean very different things to different people. Using ambiguous terms can lead to confusion and miscommunication with people you want to engage for help. Being more precise, by expressing probabilities as percentages, makes it more likely you'll uncover information that can correct inaccuracies in your beliefs and broaden your knowledge.

The size of the range signals what you know and what you don't know. The larger the range, the less information or the lower the quality of the information informing your estimate, and the more you need to learn. Communicating the size of the range also signals to others that you need their knowledge and perspective to narrow the range.

Tout ce qui touche au langage est dans mon souvenir motif de rancœur et de chicanes douloureuses, bien plus que l'argent.

Neither of us had mentioned the word abortion, not even once. This thing had no place in language.

Nunca he escrito para que sea bonito o para hacer una frase bella. Lo que yo escojo es la frase justa

Ma mère écrivait, vous pourriez venir vous reposer à la maison, n'osant pas dire de venir les voir pour eux-mêmes.

Porque por encima de todas las razones sociales y psicológicas que pueda encontrar a lo que viví, hay una de la cual estoy totalmente segura: esas cosas me ocurrieron para que diera cuenta de ellas. Y quizás el verdadero objetivo de mi cuerpo, mis sensaciones y mis pensamientos se conviertan en escritura, es decir, en algo inteligible y general, y que mi experiencia pase a disolverse completamente en la cabeza y en la vida de otros.

Le temps passait lentement, il ne parlait pas beaucoup, sans que je puisse savoir pourquoi. Il est déjà parti dans sa tête, voilà tout.

Ecrire pour faire advenir un peu de vérité. Mais que cette vérité ne soit pas advenue seulement pour une élite.

E forse il vero scopo della mia vita è soltanto questo: che il mio corpo, le mie sensazioni e i miei pensieri diventino scrittura, qualcosa di intelligibile e di generale, la mia esistenza completamente dissolta nella testa e nella vita degli altri.

A partir de entonces, les he dicho a varios hombres: «Cuando yo estaba a punto de cumplir doce años, mi padre intentó matar a mi madre». El hecho de haber necesitado decírselo demuestra lo unida que me sentía a ellos. Sin embargo, todos se quedaron en silencio después de oírlo. Y yo me daba cuenta de que había cometido un error, de que no estaban preparados para escucharlo.

À un moment, je lui ai dit sous une forme détournée que j'étais enceinte, sans doute parce que je pensais qu'il pourrait m'aider.

There's nothing to be ashamed of in loving a person and saying so.

Se anularán súbitamente los miles de palabras que han servido para nombrar las cosas, las caras de las personas, los actos y los sentimientos, que han ordenado el mundo, que han hecho latir el corazón y humedecer el sexo.

Ni Annie M. ni Frédérique L. ne m'ont parlé de mon amour « russe » au téléphone et ce silence est pour moi comme le signe qu'elles savent que cette histoire est finie (bien qu'objectivement je ne voie pas comment elles pourraient savoir).

Quand ai-je rêvé qu'il enlevait ses chaussettes pour faire l'amour ? Le sens de ce rêve est clair : je suis sûre qu'il a une autre femme (laquelle supporterait qu'il garde ses chaussettes !!) Hésitation entre deux hypothèses : 1) il n'a plus aucun désir de continuer notre relation Ã¢â'¬â€œ 2) Il m'appellera très naturellement quand il aura le temps ou le désir de me voir.

Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.