Quotes About Communication

The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

To kill yourself was to say to your family members, I can no longer live with myself. To vanish was to say, I can no longer live with you.

Sometimes I don't think any of us really believes anything we say; we are just defending our kind.

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare.

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

Taking the time to watch, listen to, and discern your baby's nonverbal cues won't only make your job of providing care easier, but it'll make your baby's job of taking on the world easier. Knowing that what he or she has to say matters will boost not only your baby's language development, but also his or her confidence, sense of security, and emotional maturity, not only now, but in the lifetime that lies ahead.

First evidence of this is when a toddler points to things. Finger-pointing is code.

I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, 'Maybe he owed somebody money.'" "Yes

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. Heinrich Böll; "The Stories of Heinrich Böll"

Si sa infatti che il vero bisogno, quando lo si avverta nella voce, quando lo si legga sul volto, ha il potere di chiudere le borse.

Embarrassment seems to be the sole means of communication between parents and children.

Udii il suo respiro; non so per quanto tempo, ma lo udii chiaramente, poi lei riattaccò. Io sarei rimasto a lungo così, con il ricevitore in mano, solo per sentirla respirare.

Apám erÅ'tlenül bólintott, én feléje nyújtottam a csomag cigarettát, vett belÅ'le, tüzet adtam. Sajnáltam már. Rossz lehet az egy apának, ha akkor beszélget elÅ'ször igazán a fiával, amikor az már majdnem huszonnyolc éves.

Everything bad comes from those resounding voices; those resounding voices started the war, and those resounding voices regulate the worst war of all, the war at railway stations. To hell with all resounding voices!

One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

When I am asked how or why I wrote this or that, I always find myself quite embarrassed. I would gladly furnish not merely the questioner, but myself as well, with an exhaustive answer, but can never do so. I cannot recreate the context in its entirety, yet I wish that I could, so that at least the literature I myself make might be made slightly less of a mysterious process than bridge-building and bread-baking.

Most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.

Where words leave off, music begins.