Quotes About Communication

She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst possible thing had happened to her as well.

Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.

When you talked you involved other people . . . you crept back out of the unbearable loneliness of experience.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: "When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

there are ways to be dishonest that fall short of actual lying.

the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

that out loud? "Repeat, Agent Vail?" "I said, 'A lot of sittin' for the next six minutes.'" The last thing she needed was to have her radio transmission played back in front of everyone; she'd be ridiculed for weeks. "Unit Five approaching, Queens Boulevard and Forty-eighth." Mike Hartman's voice sounded

Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun.

You are a manipulator when you try to persuade people to do something that is not in their best interests but is in yours. You are a motivator when you find goals that will be good for both sides, then weld together a high-achieving, high-morale partnership to achieve them.

Wise parents do not criticize each other in front of their children or their friends. Nor do they talk negatively about their children when others are present. That is disloyalty.

Suzy appeared in the doorway. "Bella," she said. Bertie groaned. Not Bossy Bella. Of all Suzy's friends she was the worst. She would be trying to boss him around all night.

Gossip is passing on to a person the negative things someone else had said.

THE LESS SAID, the fewer mistakes; the greater the talk, the greater the headache. —YOSEF QIMHI (C. 1160–1235)

Opening a meeting or conversation in a way which is straight to the point, precise and clear with regard to your meeting goal, whilst remaining polite, courteous and respectful, will always give you the best chance of the meeting producing concrete results, rapidly and with a positive impact on your relationship with the other person.

every minute which passes at the beginning of a meeting before you announce your real intentions will generate either suspicion or caution.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

We can never fully understand the hearts and minds of people . . . unless we can speak directly to them in their own language so that the implications, not just the words, come through clearly.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.