Quotes About Communication

I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.

writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it

Writing is merely public speaking on paper, but to a much larger audience.

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, 2nd edition,

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

Keys to Great Writing by Stephen Wilbers

More strictly defined, meditation is thinking about God. Prayer is actually speaking to God, either in words or in silent contemplation.

Teresa of Avila makes the point that it isn't whether the prayers are memorized or not or said out loud or not that determines their value, but whether we pay attention to what we're saying and to whom we're speaking.

In essence, contemplative prayer is a communication with God that isn't simply our own mental or affective effort, but has at least some dimension of "givenness" by God, some infusion of light or love or presence that transcends our own efforts.

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

If the people are the landlords of the public airwaves and the television and radio stations are the tenants, why don't the tenants pay rent?

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.