Quotes About Communication

Nëse do të bashkoheshin të gjitha gënjeshtrat që thonë gratë gjatë aktit seksual, atëherë do të ndodhte një shpërthim, i cili do të trondiste botën.

Përsosmëritë që kërkojmë nga njëri-tjetri në tërësinë e tyre janë kaq të tmerrshme, saqë vetëm gënjeshtrat mund të na ndihmojnë që t'i ruajmë ato.

Seksi shkon shumë mirë me gënjeshtrat.

Gjuha është një putanë, me të cilën kushdo mund të abuzojë si të ketë dëshirë.

Ne kemi nevojë për dy burra: një të heshtur për dashuri dhe një të zgjuar, që ta dëgjojmë gjithë ditën. Ose asnjë, sepse ndjenjat që investohen qëndrojnë në një raport të papranueshëm me rezultatin.

Një nga paragjykimet, që kultivojnë burrat për ne, është se ne vdesim për shampanjë. Sikur zona, ku gudulisemi më shumë të ishte gjuha.

EC is about communication, about gently getting in harmony with your baby, and proceeding at a pace that feels right for all of you. It's about engaging in a give-and-take on a daily basis and honing those instincts (the same instincts that allow you to sense when your baby is hungry, tired, or overstimulated) that make parenting your own unique baby so rewarding. There's nothing coercive, forced, or pressured about EC.

Like Janus, the press has presented two faces: one detrimental and one advantageous.

When you talk, your face has more moves than Lebron James.

In the meantime, the works of Gordon, Lupyan, and others suggests that words are not just convenient labels for things; rather, they are extremely powerful mental devices.

Language is unique in that there are no other animals with which we converse, no matter what language we are speaking. And yet the miracle of this research has been the realization that what is unique from one perspective may be constructed of mostly old parts from another.

The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.

Indeed, humans won't speak or produce language unless they are taught to do so, which means that our remarkable capacity doesn't amount to much at all if someone isn't there to provide a model for how to use it.

Developmental psychologists now talk about the cross-modality of language, meaning that language is expressed in various ways. Instead of the image of a brain issuing language to a mouth, from which it emerges as imperfect speech, think, rather, of language emerging in the child as an expression of its entire body, articulating both limbs and mouth at the same time.

I]t is almost impossible to talk about space without gesturing. Gesture is spontaneous, and is integral to individual expression as it is to communication. Even though you probably won't gesture as much if you are talking on the phone, you will still wave your arms about. Blind people gesture when they speak in the same way that seeing people do.

While all living things affect the evolution of other living things simply by virtue of trying to stay alive, humans interact with the biological evolution of other species in a much more complex and powerful fashion because of one ability: language. Nothing occurs on the human scale without language. No language means no agriculture, no animal farming, no science.

At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

Today there are about six thousand languages in the world, and half of the world's population speaks only ten of them. English is the single most dominant of these ten.

Language is the real information highway, the first virtual world. Language is the worldwide web, and everyone is logged on.

It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.

What's amazing about speech is that when you're on the receiving end, listening to the noise that comes out of people's mouths, you instantaneously hear meaningful language. Yet speech is just sound, a semicontinuous buzz that fluctuates rapidly and regularly. Frequencies rise and fall, harmonics within the frequencies change their relationships to one another, air turbulence increases and dies away. It gets loud, and then it gets quiet.

He concluded that language, specifically the act of naming something with a word, helps categorize.

As language is learned, it alters how we process information. Just as when we learn to identify a face with a name, it alters how we treat a face-it's not just a face, it's my friend Mike-so learning language results in our automatic labeling of objects, actions, sounds, and even more abstract categories like emotions. This labeling categorizes the item and links it to other instances of the category.

We would never ask a hearing student to comprehend a lecture in Mandarin if he or she did not have proficiency in the language. Nevertheless, we ask this feat of deaf children everyday.