Quotes About Communication

Even a stone would talk if you broke its teeth.

Speech is oft repented, silence never

To the good listener, half a word is enough.

Remember: Writing is drawing.

A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

What we need is a plan B … independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

I was developing what I would call an "athletic" approach to hospitality, sometimes playing offense, sometimes playing defense, but always wanting to find a way to win. ... The point is to keep the dialogue open while sending the message: I am your agent, not the gatekeeper!

My wife said to me recently that she hates couples who finish each other's sentences for them. I agreed that it was annoying, but it made me think that perhaps we were missing out on something, so now every time she says anything, I say 'full stop' at the end. I have been doing it for a full week now, and it has really kept the romance alive.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

I apologize. I feel I've let you down somehow with my tales of reasonable and efficient travel. I'm sure if I'd been Bill Bryson my taxi driver would have told me a funny story, or something. I'm afraid mine simply listened to the BBC London and was outraged by everything the presenter was saying. He did spit when he talked, though, if that's any use to you.

So, maybe Yeses are meant to be shared. Maybe that's what all this is about. Maybe life's about finding opportunities to share with someone. That's all it is, when you think about it. A series of opportunities to share.

It was 8am. My phone was ringing. What kind of society do we live in where someone can make your phone ring at 8am? There should be rules.

Hello?' said the taxi driver, and I realized that it's all very well having an internal monologue, but it does tend to leave the other person a bit stranded, conversationally.

The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.

A translator ought to be faithful, but is not bound down to being literal.

Y cuando alguien te pregunta: «¿ Cómo estás» a pesar de estar muy ocupado, es porque realmente le interesas.

los hombres no nacieron para «suponer» nada ni para entender «las indirectas», mientras que las mujeres se especializan en ellas.

Lo determinante que tienes que comprender como varón, es que cuando la mujer te hace una pregunta indirecta, no está comenzando a juzgarte, sino que el juicio ya concluyó y resultaste claramente condenado, solo ha venido a comunicártelo de manera indirecta para que cuando reacciones, ella pueda comprobar que sentenció en forma correcta.

las mujeres no sospechan que los varones podemos pasar horas enteras sin pensar, literalmente.

Estimados caballeros, por nuestra salud mental y emocional, debemos saber que ellas no hablan como nosotros, nunca quieren decir lo que están diciendo, y entenderlas lleva algunos años de entrenamiento; es casi como aprender otro idioma.

No hables tosco, torpe ni duro a quien amas. Habla suave. Habla dulce. Habla de tal manera que vengan los cambios, y no de tal forma que su corazón se cierre. Reclama cambios cuando así corresponda, pero no olvides que tú eres el primero al que no le deba costar cambiar. No pongas condiciones tales como «si no cambia…», y tú no estés dispuesto a cambiar en eso que exiges en ella cambiar. Eso es simplemente falta de autoridad.

Intervemamos, hasta los mas ignorantes, porque de amor y viajes y enredos todos podemos hablar, y decir sentencias que suenan cuanto mas sabias, sobre todo al senalar los errores de los que, lejanos, se someten a la memoria ajena, severa y mentirosa.