Quotes About Communication

Though he be not hedged in with ceremonial respect, his sons at least accost him with confidence; no settled form of speech is appropriated to the mode of addressing him, but they speak to him constantly, and are ready to consult him day by day; the master and the constituted ruler have vanished—the father remains.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Similarly, parents who want to teach the importance of honesty make it a practice never to lie to their children, even when it would be easier just to claim that there are no cookies left rather than to explain why they can't have another one.

This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

A private meaning is in fact no meaning at all. Meaning is only possible in communication: a word which meant something to one person only would really be meaningless. It is the same with our aims and actions; their only meaning is their meaning for others. Every human being strives for significance; but people always make mistakes if they do not see that their whole significance must consist in their contribution to the lives of others. An

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Presteign took out a silver-mounted slab of crystal and handed it to Olivia. She touched it with her fingertip; a black dot appeared. She moved her finger and the dot elongated into a line.

You knew and you've been laughing at me.' 'No.' 'Standing by and shaking with laughter.' 'Standing by and loving you.

There are fighting generals (vital to an army), political generals (vital to an administration), and public relations generals (vital to a war).

I never said actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?!

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Any proposition containing the word is creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Whatever we may say will not be the objective level, which remains fundamentally un-speakable. Thus, we can sit on the object called 'a chair', but we cannot sit on the noise we made or the name we applied to that object.

The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.

Moreover, every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolve the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Definitions create conditions.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

The only language {God} hears is the silent language of love.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.