Quotes About Communication

The world is vast, the situations that concern us are intricate, the messages are few, the biggest part of opinion must be constructed in the imagination.

The General Staff of an army in the field is so placed that within wide limits it can control what the public will perceive. It controls the selection of correspondents who go to the front, controls their movements at the front, reads and censors their messages from the front, and operates the wires.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event. That is why until we know what others think they know, we cannot truly understand their acts.

The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.

For if I when I speak am unable to make myself intelligible, then I am not speaking - even though I were to talk uninterruptedly day and night...Therein lies the distress and anguish.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

Dicke Bücher sind deswegen dick, weil der Autor nicht die Zeit hatte sich kurz zu fassen.

Verwechsle nicht den Botschafter mit der Nachricht." (Storr der Schnitter)

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Nimitz kept avoiding the hands that attempted to steer him off the wing and into a crash boat. Finally, an eighteen-year-old seaman second class lost patience with the white-haired gentleman, and knowing neither his identity nor his rank, he shouted out, "Commander, if you would only get the hell out of the way, maybe we could get something done around here." Nimitz merely nodded and finally clambered into the waiting boat.

He paused to write a five-thousand-word rebuttal.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

This time called life was meant to share.

Algunas personas, cuando le dicen al otro que ya no lo quieren, aprovechan para lavarse las manos: «¡Te dejo porque no te amo y tú tienes la culpa!». Doble golpe. Como quien dice, es hacer leña del árbol caído

Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él.

Una llamada telefónica de la persona que "supuestamente" nos ama puede estar motivada por muchas cosas distintas al amor: una simple nostalgia pasajera, confirmar un chisme, sentimientos de pesar o de culpa.

Cuando digo no, me siento culpable.

No basta con amar para que una relación prospere

Es muy difícil amar a quien no se deja y convencerlo de que es querible.

De alguna manera, los individuos ventajosos y desconsiderados detectan a los mansos/dependientes, los desnudan en la relación cara a cara, los descubren en la mirada huidiza, en el tono de voz apagado, la postura tensa, los gestos conciliadores, los circunloquios, las disculpas y la amabilidad excesiva. Los ubican, los ponen en la mira y atacan. Insisto, la idea no es crear un estilo prevenido y dejar de creer en la humanidad, sino adoptar un actitud previsora.

la comunidad te hace un reconocimiento o una felicitación honesta y franca, no los desprecies ni les des a entender que se equivocaron. No digas que no la mereces ¡di gracias y cállate!

el comportamiento asertivo conlleva un costo social: la gente sincera incomoda