Quotes About Communication

One of my best days was when I ... offered [chimp David Greybeard] fruit on my outstretched hand, and he turned his head away. I put my hand closer - and he took the fruit, dropped it, and gently squeezed my hand, which is a chimp reassurance gesture ... We communicated perfectly in a language that predates words.

from the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.

I well remember writing to Louis about my first observations, describing how David Graybeard not only used bits of straw to fish for termites but actually stripped leaves from a stem and thus made a tool. And I remember too receiving the now oft-quoted telegram he sent in response to my letter: Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as humans. There

Just tell people stories, try and find out who they are, try and find something that links you with them.

But like our intellect, social media in itself is neither good nor bad—it is the use to which we put it that counts.

She called this network the Wood Wide Web because the trees of a forest are all connected under the ground. And that through this network, trees can receive information about their kinship, their health, and their needs.

Chimpanzees and the other great apes can learn four hundred or more words of American Sign

we developed this ability to communicate with words.

Yes, I've found that stories reach the heart better than any facts or figures.

Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is to keep secrets. They always come out in the end, and it is the unspoken that causes the most problems.

I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle

If you want to talk about it with someone, then I`m happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.

Alanna always says fine, even when Gabby can see the day hasn't been

but if I can't tell my best friend, who can I tell??

One person can't be expected to fulfill all your needs; that's just unreasonable." "True

Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.

Allowing ourselves to show our vulnerability is how we make human connections. If we're not showing other people our true selves, our weaknesses and flaws, how can we ever allow ourselves to be known?

I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication.

Well we all know blokes don't do detail, they do facts.

I had absolutely no idea what to say to him, this man I had struggled

you don't have to wait for someone to treat you badly repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

The two or so times we actually fought she smashed a plate and stormed out into the night. I have always disliked an argument. When I tried to be the voice of reason, when I pointed out that it might be wiser to continue what I mildly referred to as, "the discussion," she flew off the handle again. Later, in jest, she accused me of being more even and mature than any reasonable person could tolerate.

They talked to him in his own intellectual terms, sometimes caustically sarcastic, sometimes crushingly critical, always humorous. In personal terms, however, they treated him with a gentle consideration which was almost loving.