Quotes About Communication

You're very patronizing," I pointed out. "Very clever of you to notice, girlie. Have

There was something she wasn't telling me, but I had to trust her—only a fool ignores a local guide. "Okay

Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly highbrow, painfully ambiguous, and potentially unreadable.

6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated.

The language of division can always be monetised.

Mary tuned in the wireless and heard a news bulletin on RadioToadReading informing everyone exactly why they should be panicking and what form this panicking should take.

I don't really get the whole intellect-through-isolation thing, I said. I'm not sure anyone can claim to understand the human condition until he's talked two people out of a fight, smoothed over a best friend's marital breakup or dealt effectively with a teenager's huffy silence

Que la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

El mejor que he tenido nunca: eramos tan amigos que ni siquiera necesitábamos hablar cuando estabamos juntos.

Si el periodista es listo, en la entrevista sales listo; si es tonto, sales tonto. Y, como la mayoría de los periodistas son tontos... Créeme: no hay nada peor que un periodista. Salvo un político, claro.

Cosette intuyó que su padre le estaba mintiendo, pero también que le estaba mintiendo con la verdad.

Lo que quiero decir es que quien siempre sabe adónde va nunca llega a ninguna parte, y que sólo se sabe lo que se quiere decir cuando ya se ha dicho

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear, it's always too late.

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it's one of the innumerable languages I don't know, even if it's in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn't understand and what's said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won't understand it.

The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.

Writer and researcher of group dynamics Christina Baldwin once said, "Words are how we think, story is how we link.

the most defining trait of great entrepreneurs in the twenty-first century will be the ability to creatively collaborate with other people

Answers of less than 30 seconds are generally insufficient, but answers over three minutes are too long.

Ask for a monthly allowance instead.

Everybody can market intelligently and establish many rewarding relationships with a good blog.

subject lines shorter than 50 characters in length, as well as an increased number of hyperlinks, led to increased open- and click-through rates.

The idea is to have a wonderfully responsive list of people who opted in to your list, and then to send them a brief e-mail with a hyperlink to your Web site. That e-mail must be readable on one screen with no scrolling.

Your sales copy is the only contact you'll have with the vast majority of your visitors. That's why you have to make the most of it.

You don't have to give away free things in order to be generous. You can prove your generosity by your ability to listen and see things from your customer's point of view. You can prove it by your willingness to share information, by the inside tips you give to your customers.