Quotes About Communication

This book shows how to apply the power of storytelling to strategic messaging in the age of social media.

First, recognize that a set of facts can guide and inspire only if it is heard and gains buy-in—but that is rarely the case. Second, explore how stories can accomplish or help to accomplish the same objective. Sometimes, a set of facts can be turned into a story by providing a context and more information.

Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.

While persons brought up within literate culture often speak about the natural world, indigenous, oral peoples sometimes speak directly to that world, acknowledging certain animals, plants, and even landforms as expressive subjects with whom they might find themselves in conversation.

If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us—we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.

Govor nam je potreban koliko i vazduh koji udišemo, jer se govorom osloba?amo pritiska nerealizovanih misli, pri?a i re?enica. ?utanje može da ubije - i onoga koji ?uti, kao i onoga koji sluša.

Ništa nije strašnije, kaže žena, nego kada upitaš nekoga da li te voli, a onda na njegovom licu ugledaš izraz takve dosade da bi najradije zaboravila da postojiš. Ali pitanje je ve? postavljeno, re?i vise u vazduhu kao opran veš i preostaje ti jedino da ?utiš i ?ekaš odgovor koji ionako ništa ne zna?i. (Dosada)

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

There was nothing to be gained in speaking to the evil, and everything to lose.

Stay the patient course Of little worth is your ire The network is down

I believe that if you speak from your heart each time you open your mouth, you cannot go wrong.

The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

think he understands that you wouldn't do that

Do you always have to keep your claws out and sharp? Has it ever occurred to you that some of us might just want to be friendly?

A cat said goodbye by simply sticking its tail in the air and walking away.

For many Romans, civil war remained the war that dared not speak its name. The words bellum civile had to be weighed carefully and spoken sparingly, if ever at all, because of the harsh memories of major conflicts.

Some people said a lot in quiet voices, some said nothing in loud ones.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

campaign in poetry and govern in prose"—and

I just want you to know that I will do anything to help you through this difficult time. But I need to learn what to say and what not to say, what to do and what not to do, so I can be an encouragement and not hurt you unintentionally. I am even willing to attend this group by myself to learn these things, but it would be much better if you would go too. Then we could discuss the experience and what we both learn from it.

All writing is lies. Good writing is lies skillfully told.

Love has nothing to do with money. It doesn't matter if you love your spouse or partner more than anything in the world. If the two of you have conflicting values about money and make financial decisions that fail to accommodate each other's feelings about the subject, you are going to have serious relationship problems.