Quotes About Communication

I'm warning you! Don't make me use my pen!

This admission is a fundamental step in changing the situation in the family. As long as the fantasy of love is maintained, there will be no real change.

Parents in their dishonesty manipulate their children and hide their real feelings, and of course their children learn early to manipulate back.

Bateson (1972) describes the prepsychotic child as growing up "unskilled in determining what people really mean and unskilled in expressing what he really means, which is essential for normal relationships." He suggests that this situation occurs in normal relationships as well. When a person is caught in a double-bind situation, he will respond defensively in a manner similar to the schizophrenic, though less intensely.

Believing the words of one's mate while ignoring the actions can lead to serious distortions of reality.

When parents cannot bear to know that they are rejecting their children, they systematically cut off the children's opportunity to express themselves. Hiding the truth forces the children to bury their pain, which interferes with the possibility of healing.

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As Ben Scott puts it, we are in a "triple paradigm shift," wherein personal communication, mass media, and market information have been subsumed within the new order so that the distinctions are becoming passé.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Doctors think they are more important in their patients' lives than their patients do.

Patients possess a body of knowledge about themselves that we can never hope to master, and we have a body of knowledge about medicine that they can never hope to master. Our job is to bring these two groups together so we can serve each other well.

If we go into the visit with both parties knowing what's going on, then we can spend the visit talking about what we do about it.

We have Dragon [dictation software]," one primary care doctor said, "which you have to be careful of, because I just [dictated] 'Patient's prostate is bothering him' and it turned out 'Patient's prostitute is bothering him.

it is this integration between the worlds of the patient and the clinician that carries the most promise.

It shouldn't surprise you, then, that notes written by internists read like novellas (ones in which we're paid by the word), while a colleague of mine jokes that a typical post-op surgical note reads something like "Feeling well and doing swell.

We have Dragon dictation software', one primary doctor said, 'which you have to be careful of, because, I just dictated: "patient's prostate is bothering him" and it turned out: "patient's prostitute is bothering him.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent.

I'd always thought praying was words directed toward God, but this was God touching me.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ST. JEROME

He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.

Those are the sites that only allow you to be a listener and not a broadcaster. A site called Live365.com is different.

we deceive ourselves in order to deceive others better. This hypothesis was tossed out during the mid-1970s by both Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers.

the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

When people feel like fighting, they are pretty good at coming