Quotes About Communication

Once words have been raged at someone, they can't be taken back.

When Karen speaks in Farsi, which she does even with her children, the tone of her Southern drawl colours the language in a strange an inimitable way. I listen for several minutes and decide that Farsi is, by nature, a language of deep greens and browns, and that Karen speaks it in bright red swaths.

Never reveal your hand, Anna, he advised. If my cap knew my mind, I would throw it into the fire. It was one of the most revealing things he had ever said to her.

conversation – about the weather, as that is what you like to talk about in England, other subjects being, er, forbidden, eh?

Science has proved that the more you smile, the more positive reactions others will give you.

Linda was keen to try, but musicianship and songwriting did not come easily to her, and she quickly discovered that she could not count on master classes from her highly accomplished husband. "No, he is not a good teacher, Paul," she said in a frank moment. "He has no patience what-so-ever with somebody who doesn't know. He

I just pulled together Paul's ideas," Arrowsmith said. "When you work with Paul, you know, he has very strong ideas about what he wants.

It simply became very difficult for me to write with Yoko sitting there," he explained. "If I had to think of a line I started getting very nervous. I might want to say something like 'I love you, girl,' but with Yoko watching I always felt that I had to come out with something clever and avant-garde. She would probably have loved the simple stuff, but I was scared. I'm not blaming her, I'm blaming me.

Henry was right to observe that two players left Wings, and Paul hadn't asked why. But Paul hadn't asked why because he knew the answer. The dispute that led to McCullough's departure mirrored fights he'd had with Harrison over what to play and how to play it, as well as Lennon's complaint, in that painful Rolling Stone interview, about Paul treating them as sidemen. He was, once again, accused by his bandmates of being a control freak.

Tie an Italian's hands behind his back and he'll be speechless.

Studies show that women laugh at men they're attracted to, and men are attracted to women who laugh at them.

cuando el público se cruza de brazos, no sólo tiene más pensamientos negativos sobre el conferenciante, sino que además presta menos atención a lo que se dice. Es por este motivo que los centros de formación deberían tener sillas con brazos que permitieran a los asistentes dejar los brazos descruzados.

As long as someone holds an arms-folded position,a negative attitude will persist.

El lenguaje del cuerpo es más fácil de fingir frente a hombres que frente a mujeres porque, en general, los hombres no saben interpretar muy bien el lenguaje del cuerpo.

Cuando los hombres mienten, el lenguaje de su cuerpo puede ser evidente. Cuando las mujeres mienten, prefieren aparentar estar ocupadas.

Warren had to decide whether to fight for his choice, and once he did, find a way to preserve his relationship while getting the desired result.

One of the authors, then a department head, found that this worked when a colleague was trying to manipulate and bully him (about office space); looking right at the colleague and loudly saying, "Don't mess with me, Jack. I teach negotiations!" made him back off. Jack was much nicer from then on, because he assumed his ploys wouldn't work.

I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening

Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying, and also knows you know he knows.

It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.

Our classification of mental disorders is no more than a collection of fallible and limited constructs that seeks but never finds the truth - but this remains our best current way of communicating about, treating, and researching mental disorders. [...] It is good to know and use the DSM definitions, but not to reify or worship them.

Candor disarms paranoia.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message