Quotes About Communication

His game of hide-and-seek about Bull Bun, Centreville, and Manassas Plains was grand, but marred in completeness by the failure of General A. P. Hill to meet his orders for the afternoon of the 28th. As a leader he was fine; as a wheel-horse, he was not always just to himself. He was fond of the picturesque.

General Lee said that the attack of his right was not made as early as expected,—which he should not have said. He knew that I did not believe that success was possible; that care and time should be taken to give the troops the benefit of positions and the grounds; and he should have put an officer in charge who had more confidence in his plan. Two-thirds of the troops were of other commands, and there was no reason for putting the assaulting forces under my charge.

Science always uses metaphor.

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

Contact means the exchange of specific knowledge, ideas, or at least of findings, definite facts. But what if no exchange is possible? If an elephant is not a giant microbe, the ocean is not a giant brain.

The difficulties or pains or resentments that get built up when people live or work together, the assumptions you make about other people and how things should be done are like old food in the pot. Each morning, when you meet each other, let it be like new fresh food! So don't put new arisings into your dirty pot of yesterday's food.

Though God is beyond our comprehension, we can know him and speak meaningfully about him because he has revealed himself to us in the written and living word.

If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message.

Interestingly, one of the most important times to listen well is when you disagree with the message, especially as it relates to how we affect others.

They shared a fondness for barbed humor and skill at using it to defuse stress. Each recognized the other as a master of this dangerous game, producing mutual respect.

If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst

Men who are cut off, careful, and closed are also lonely and just as vulnerable in a different way as their wives alone in a dark alley after midnight.

We preach so that people can hear the voice of God, period.

he would run, the Missouri Senator told Roosevelt's men, "but why the hell didn't he tell me in the first place?

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. He has a property very dear to him in the safety and liberty of his person. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.

Gratitude, peace, and joy are ways that God communicates with us. During these times, we are feeling a real connection with God, though we might not initially identify it as such. The key insight is accepting that these are ways that God is communicating with us. That is, the first step involves a bit of trust.

It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

GOD COMMUNICATES WITH US in many ways. But prayer is a special time when God's voice is often heard most clearly because we are giving God our undivided attention. Whether in Ignatian contemplation, lectio divina, the colloquy, the examen, or any other practice, the "still small" voice can be heard with a clarity that can delight, astonish, and surprise you. So when you pray, however you pray, and feel that God is speaking to you—pay attention.

Looking at our personal relationships can help us get our prayer life in order.

being present." Once you are present to what you are saying, you express it differently, and as a result it sounds different