Quotes About Communication

If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that.

Ludwig Wittgenstein,

you never want to solve a research problem with language. You

my soul doesn't speak in thoughts at all—it speaks in feelings, images, and clues.

started out basically imagining I was writing for a stadium full of replicas of myself—which made things easy because I already knew exactly what topics interested them, what writing style they liked, what their sense of humor was, etc.

Therefore, to be furious and enraged and bitter that people don't get all of who we are is a really a cruel piece of immaturity.

Practica el juego de «yo primero» GABBY: «Siempre me digo que yo seré la primera… Eso significa que si voy a pagar en una tienda, yo saludaré primero. Si me cruzo con alguien y hay contacto visual, yo seré la primera en sonreír. [Ojalá] la gente probara a hacer eso un poquito en su día a día: sé el primero, porque (no siempre, pero la mayoría de las veces) te beneficiará.

If you learn the auxiliary verbs in your target language, plus the all-important to be, to have, to do, and to go, you can very quickly express any idea.18 Just see the following chart.

Telling myself the victim story allows me to vent briefly. Once I'm over it, then I realize that if this meeting was so important to me, I should have made it clear to my girlfriend that I couldn't be late, and let her know that if she was running late, I'd have to leave without her.

How is it different and why should I buy it? ONE sentence or phrase, folks. Apple did an excellent job of this with the iPod. Instead of using the usual industry jargon with GB, bandwidth, and so forth, they simply said, "1,000 songs in your pocket.

I do what I always do: find a personal e-mail if possible, often through their little-known personal blogs, send a two- to three-paragraph e-mail which explains that I am familiar with their work, and ask one simple-to-answer but thought-provoking question in that e-mail related to their work or life philosophies. The goal is to start a dialogue so they take the time to answer future e-mails—not to ask for help. That can only come after at least three or four genuine e-mail exchanges.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past. —BILL GATES, cofounder of Microsoft, richest man in the world

Everyone is interesting. If you're ever bored in a conversation, the problem's with you, not the other person.

if the woman can refrain from trying to change or mother her partner, she has a greater opportunity of putting herself in a position where the guy will respect her. A man needs support. I mean, I love you guys and you're all strong, but you're very fragile, and you need to be supported and [for us to] help you fully realize your voice, whatever that is.

The Passion Trap: How to Right an Unbalanced Relationship by relationship therapist and psychologist Dean C. Delis.

Cuando te obliguen a llegar a un acuerdo, pide más.

The World Doesn't Need Your Explanation. On Saying "No": "I don't give explanations anymore, and I'll catch myself when I start giving explanations like 'Oh, I'm sorry, I can't make it. I have a doctor's appointment that day. I'm really sick. I broke my leg over the weekend' or something. I just say, 'I can't do it. I hope everything is well.

FollowUp.cc: Para seguimientos y recordatorios automáticos del correo electrónico. Yo uso un primo hermano de este servicio llamado Nudgemail, en combinación con Boomerang. Nunca más tendrás que acordarte de perseguir a nadie.

If you only engage with people about problems, pretty soon, you'll become the problem for them," and I agree with that.

When we fail to reason honestly, we have lost our connection to the world and to one another.

Excuse me. I know this is going to sound strange, but if I don't ask you now, I'll be kicking myself for the rest of the day. I'm running to meet a friend [i.e., I have friends and am not a stalker], but I think you're really [extremely, drop-dead] cute [gorgeous, hot]. Could I have your phone number? I'm not a psycho—I promise. You can give me a fake one if you're not interested.

The Gary Halbert Letter (también conocido como The Boron Letters) y Ogilvy on Advertising.

2. Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-mail.

A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information. In general, know when it's really important not to take people's words at 100 percent face value.