Quotes About Communication

I am absolutely a believer. Faith and life are synonymous functions. If you don't believe, you can't finish a sentence, for example. Speechlessness is the clearest sign of depression. In this respect, depression and disbelief converge.

contrast, ancient European access to the experiential world was preformed by grammatical dressage; in fact, in this literacy zone the actual intellectual material offered by the world was formatted according to letter, syllable, line, page, paragraph, and chapter.

In the wall-less house of sounds, humans became the animals that come together by listening. Whatever else they might be, they are sonospheric communards.

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

When I really feel like dancing, I want someone who knows how to lead.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

David," I said, "no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends.

Do you expect to talk to us, Master Musgrave?' 'No, Lord Robert, I expect to die,' said Tom.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

Finally, for research like this, the quality of the translators is crucial. Kirundi is a language of allusion and proverbs: information is conveyed between the lines, hinted at, but rarely expressed directly. The challenge is also social: the translator is the front-line person who interacts with the interviewees, making the connection, maintaining the social aspects of the relation, putting people at ease.

The important thing is not what nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

My bosses would tell you that I've often acted as a sounding board for them. With all three of my bosses, we've mentored each other, although the obvious balance of wisdom and expertise was theirs. I was always helpful to them in their decisions about customer problems.

Although I can work effectively in most environments, I prefer environments where people are their own bosses, within reason. I like to have a goal but be able to draw my own map to get there. To accomplish goals, I rely on asking questions and finding people receptive, so cooperation and access are important to me in a work group.

Don't let your stuff be a battlefield for your relationships. Instead of focusing on whose mess it is, think of it as a group problem that you're going to solve together. Don't use words like "yours" and "mine." Talk about the clutter and challenges surrounding it as "ours.

Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.

You can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

You can't see why anyone wouldn't want to wallow in the sheer beauty of language .

Brüks digested that. "Well, if it was supposed to be some kind of compliment, her delivery needs work. You'd think someone with all that brainpower would be able to cobble together a few social skills." "Funny thing"—Moore's voice was expressionless—"Sengupta couldn't figure out how someone with all your interpersonal skills could be so shitty at math.

Szpindel's eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.