Quotes About Communication

Propositions can only say how things are, not what they are.

Everything in the world can be pictured, but a picture cannot represent its own pictorial form; this has to be shown rather than said.

If we look at what women themselves had to say, we see that many were not overly enthusiastic about their men leaving home.

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

How does a husband do that? Not by browbeating his wife—God doesn't treat us that way—but by encouraging her:

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.

When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.

You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

Inquiétant, non, un homme qui ne dit rien. Je ne sais pas si vous l'avez constaté, mais quand un homme ne dit rien alors que tout le monde parle, on n'entend plus que lui! Redoutable !

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

framing' - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those polices.

The desire to minimize human uniqueness has prompted exaggerated claims about animal tool use, about their range and mode of communication and their sense of each other, about their putative beliefs and other modes of thought. However, the monuments of collective endeavour seen in the animal kingdom – for example the heaps created by termites – are the result not of conscious deliberation but of dovetailing automaticities.

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

You know, Martin, most of us learn in grade school that saying things like 'I'm so lonely' doesn't impress women.

I mean, what makes her think I don't know about dry-humping? I could dry-hump my way through Cuba if I felt like it. She can't even spell 'pregnant'.

saying these words is like speaking avocodo. warm, ripe juicy mango.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

If a coach wants me to stay, then I think it's good that he doesn't just butter things up, but actually tells the truth.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.