Quotes About Communication

Emotions are the language of the soul.

The issue is not, by any means, to blindly follow our feelings, but to acknowledge them as a part of the way God communicates to us.

While I was disciplined in spiritual practices, the people closest to me (starting with my wife, Geri) did not experience me as more loving with each passing year.

Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice.

Jesus listened without reacting. He communicated without antagonizing. Yet he deeply disappointed the crowds. They wanted an earthly Messiah who would feed them, fix all their problems, overthrow the Roman oppressors, work miracles, and give inspiring sermons. Somehow Christ was able to serve and love them, again, without holding it against them.

God speaks to us in and through the Word.

Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.

Ironically, as a result of his move to the country, Cosell- one of the fathers of the Internet-now has only dial-up access from his home.

Something I worry about a lot when I write, that I'm less worried about with a computer, is about the ways in which English is ambiguous. I'm constantly worrying about ways in which the reader might misinterpret what I've written. So I've actually spent a lot of time consciously crafting the mechanics of my prose style to use constructions that are less likely to be misinterpreted.

when you're writing programs you need to be able to name your identifiers well. And your prose has to be good. I'd feel lost without a good dictionary.

And he was like, "No, no, I really think we ought to do that." And I was like, "We don't have time!" So he wrote it that night.

I always wish people would comment more, though the thing that makes me cringe is when the comment is the name of the function rephrased. Function's called push_stack and the comment says, "This pushes to the stack." Thank you.

The code shows me what it does. It doesn't show me what it's supposed to do.

The funny thing was that that this meant the whole company had been running without mutexes for a couple weeks, and nobody noticed.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

You have your words, and I have mine.

God was singing through this little man to all the world.

Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.

Not until Plato's Republic was a type of politician created who would no longer serve as a loudspeaker, but rather as a receiver of quiet ideas – with little success, as we know, as the introduction of the quiet politician is yet to come. It would be a contradiction in terms, for politics, as the art of what is possible in noise, remains assigned to the loud side of the phonotope

sensibilización de minorías demasiado pequeñas y, más aún, como censura permanente a través de la policía lingüística inquisitiva.

When everything has become the center, there is no longer any valid center; when everything is transmitting, the allegedly central transmitter is lost in the tangle of messages.

As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight and leaky, that must alternate between the roles of container and content, and which simultaneously have properties of inner and outer walls.