Quotes About Communication

Les hommes sont parfois si maladroits qu'on les prend pour le contraire de ce qu'ils sont vraiment.

Oui, sa seule présence aurait suffi à m'éloigner du temps passé et à me rendre fort. Au fond, c'est pour elle et elle seule que j'écris, pour faire semblant, pour me tromper, pour me convaincre qu'elle est encore à m'attendre, où qu'elle soit. Et qu'elle entend tout ce que j'ai à lui dire. Écrire me fait vivre à deux.

Cuando le pregunté si no le pesaba la soledad, se quedó pensando un buen rato y luego, con voz grave y serena dijo: «Estar solo es el sino del hombre, de un modo u otro». Me pareció una frase muy hermosa y muy falsa a la vez. Tú no estás a mi lado, pero es como si te sintiera junto a mí a cada segundo, y te hablo a menudo, en voz alta.

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.

Peut-être d'ailleurs aime-t-il entendre cette voix parce que précisément il ne peut comprendre les mots qu'elle prononce, et qu'ainsi il est sûr qu'ils ne le blesseront pas, qu'ils ne lui diront pas ce qu'il ne veut pas entendre, qu'ils ne poseront pas de questions douloureuses, qu'ils ne viendront pas dans le passé pour l'exhumer avec violence et le jeter à ses pieds comme une dépouille sanglante.

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood' all over the page, the paper would not be stained now would I bleed.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

We all know the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. But I contend there is a fourth -- one that is vitally important. You need it to teach the other three. In fact, you need it to teach everything effectively. It touches on all teaching and learning. The fourth R is rapport.

We all know the symbols for school: an apple, a red one-room schoolhouse, a bell. But those symbols never really worked for me.... If I had to pick one symbol that represents teaching, it wouldn't be any of these. It would be the bulletin board.

Children wish to be engaged with directly, even when a parent is willing to speak for them.

Now, if anything in the world is complex, language is complex.

To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant act. It presumes that you should be listened to for pages on end... But there is much in the culture to clip the wings of arrogance, mute assertion, and encourage speedy consensus.

Even the greatest works of art are couched, not in the language of "mankind," but in the language of a specific cultural tradition, and the loss of the tradition is like the loss of the dictionary;

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

I hate you! I hate you!" Hester was yelling "Well I care about you, whether you like it or not!" Tom screamed.

Grahhhhh." I looked up at LaForce. Did he just, Grahhhhh, at me?

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books...to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next 12 months telling them to sit down and be quiet.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.