Quotes About Communication

Just as careful listening is critical to understanding our verbal pronouncements, so careful observation is vital to comprehending our body language.

Commandment 2: Observing in context is key to understanding nonverbal behavior.

Commandment 5: When you interact with others, try to establish their baseline behaviors

Nonverbal behaviors comprise approximately 60 to 65 percent of all interpersonal communication and, during lovemaking, can constitute 100 percent of communication between partners (Burgoon, 1994, 229–285).

Eye-blocking" is a nonverbal behavior that can occur when we feel threatened and/or don't like what we see. Squinting (as in the case with my classmates, described above) and closing or shielding our eyes are actions that have evolved to protect the brain from "seeing" undesirable images and to communicate our disdain toward others.

During a job interview, I expect applicants to be nervous initially and for that nervousness to dissipate. If it shows up again when I ask specific questions, then I have to wonder why these nervous behaviors have suddenly presented again.

Fathers and sons… it's a complicated business, a swirl of love and longing and friction and admiration and regret.

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

All us humans are fouled on both ends. One we shit out of, and the other we talk shit out of.

You paying good money?" "For what?" "Information, asshole. You was the one said it." "Depends on the information. But please, I had asshole legally dropped from my name. "That was a mistake.

Problem with trying to be rational all the time is the other fellow ain't always concerned with how logical your argument is.

It makes you less ignorant to actually know what you're talking about, so listen to me.

Families is like windows with curtains. Some folks keep the curtains pulled back. Most open and close them from time to time, and some don't ever pull them back and you don't never get no look inside.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

When you're a teacher, you realize that you have to clearly encapsulate some unrelated technical ideas that you take for granted and understand and put them into words so someone else will understand them.

Until they found out how to activate the tractor beam." "They can think?

The last of Zahhara's patients died that night. In the end it happened very quickly. About half of them had been human, the others different alien species, but it didn't make a difference. In the last moments some of the nonhumans had reverted to their native languages, some had clutched her hand and talked to her passionately- if brokenly, through uncontrollable coughing-as if she were some family member or loved one, and she'd listened and nodded even if she didn't understand a word of it.

Your husband had something he meant to pass on to you," Zahara said. "I just wanted to make sure that you got it." Reaching into her pocket, she handed the woman a single tattered sheet of flimsi.

It is safer with me.""Forget it,"I said. "I'm still not going in.""Then you are being very stupid.""I got twenty-two hundred on my SATs,"I said. "How stupid is that?""Stupid enough not to realize when someone cares about you.""Meaning what, exactly?"She looked at me. "What do you think it means?

My voice felt dead, even to me, like somebody talking in his sleep.

She shook her head, gazing at me with a mixture of exasperation and annoyance. "I understand now why you never have a girlfriend, Perry.""What? I've had a girlfriend! What's that got to do with anything?""You do not know how to listen to a woman

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