Quotes About Communication

What does it mean to assert your authority as a parent? It doesn't necessarily mean being a tough disciplinarian. Among other things, it means ensuring that the parent-child relationship takes priority over the relationships between the child and her or his same-age peers.

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?

Twenty-first-century people hear and learn differently than most churches communicate.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

L'italiano: ero piuttosto debole in italiano. Ma, come vede, non è poi stato un gran guaio: sono qui, procuratore della Repubblica...». «L'italiano non è l'italiano: è il ragionare» disse il professore. «Con meno italiano, lei sarebbe forse ancora più in alto».

Translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Bisognerebbe entrare nell'inesprimibile senza sentire la necessità di esprimerlo...

One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.

Generally, men told stories to boast, but women were different. They wanted to look at their words in the air and extract the meaning, and if you shut up and listened, they'd tell you very interesting things indeed.

Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.

He could hear the exact moment an argument frayed, when it became about feelings, still pretending to be facts.

She can't remember the last time she spoke to a man who was listening.

I do not want to lie so rudely and ungracefully. I will lie to you elsewhere, when you least expect it, and that will be far more interesting for both of us.

My loneliness is very great. I am not in need of friends, but I must speak of Myself and I have no one to speak to.

Why did he not cry? He must have forgotten even that he had a voice.

Either you are all asses, or I am an ass," he would declare seriously and even angrily. And all his friends as seriously declared: "You are an ass. We can tell by your voice.

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

Of course, she had to put up with being insulted by the cats at times, but she insulted them back just as loudly and in the same language.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

Almost by instinct I began to incorporate more narrative in my preaching, in part because storytelling seemed to be the one communicational mode I could depend upon to cross lines of education and age.

Creo que usted se ha sentido frustrado toda su vida-contesto Bruner en tono sereno-, tal vez por culpa de un hombre que no sabía demostrar su amor.