Quotes About Communication

At this unique distance from isolation it becomes still more difficult to find words at once true and kind, or not untrue and not unkind.

How weightless words are when nothing will do. from "Gospel

I have tried to write poetry for people for whom there is no poetry.

There is more to being a great leader than just doing a task well. There is communication, empathy, respect, and compassion. You do the last one well and they will jump thru hurdles for you.

Paul said it would be better for them to express their views back in Britain, because "there, people listen a bit more. In America, they hold everything against you.

values. To know the media through which values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture are transmitte

debate" thus takes place among very few members. Most speeches are delivered from prepared notes and often have little

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Personally, he much preferred to get them chatting. People were generally much less inclined to want to kill you once you'd chatted for a bit, and if they weren't, well, at least you could use the time to think of an escape plan.

Most of the time he didn't even bother to look back at the boy struggling along behind him on his weary pony. He just tossed words over his shoulder and expected Ansel to catch them.

Even Cynthia had to remember she was playing deaf and stop herself from crying out.

He said his name was Kobi Chen-Tulsi. He said, "Tell Threnody Noon that the Prells are going to attack Grand Central." - The Crystal Horizon

He smiled faintly, like somebody who had never seen a smile, but had read a book on how to do it.

The most complex analyses grow beautifully simple as they become public objects.

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

The corollary of this visceral desire to avoid confrontation at all costs is that debate and argument do not function as a means of resolving differences. Between the extremes of acquiescence and violence there is no middle ground. The

For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

There's also the "premortem," in which the team is told to assume a course of action has failed and to explain why—which makes team members feel safe to express doubts they may have about the leader's plan. But the superteams did not start with leaders and norms, which created other challenges.

Politics and the English Language," George Orwell concluded with six emphatic rules, including "never use a long word where a short one will do" and "never use the passive where you can use the active.

People who argue do not understand; And people who understand do not argue.

As the most socially accepted means of touching, a handshake is one of the main ways we exchange energy with others.