Quotes About Communication

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Truth without love doesn't work. Some people use the truth like a weapon. They don't tell the truth; they aim it. The truth sometimes hurts, but it doesn't have to maim, kill, or destroy. As

Here's a practical place to get started in this adventure of loving God with all your heart: Talk to God out loud and with emotion.

All computers expect to be yelled at. There's not a single computer in the whole world that hasn't been sworn at. Even the discreet little VDU with the crossed keys monogram on the keyboard that sits on the Pope's desk in his office in the Vatican has in its time heard language that'd make a Marine blush.

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

That you may be strong be a craftsman in speech, for the strength of one is the tongue, and the speech of one is mightier than all fighting. –Written five thousand years ago by Ptahhotep

Selling is the art of asking the right questions to get the minor yeses that allow you to lead your prospect to the major decision. It's a simple function, and the final sale is nothing more than the sum total of all your yeses.

When you're uncomfortable with the words you're using, it becomes obvious to your listeners. When they recognize your discomfort, their defenses are likely to go up making the continuation of the conversation or sales process more challenging than when you are comfortable with what you're saying. This is where dedication to your craft becomes very important.

Telkens als hij de nieuwe, slotloze deur van De Becker passeerde, stak hij haar zonder te kloppen open, brulde keihard 'Onnozelaar!' en smakte haar even keihard weer dicht

Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we'd live in a dull world.

Everything becomes buffering, and buffering becomes everything.

He turned toward my voice. "Am I well?" His mocking tone was unmistakable. "Am I well? Why can't you just talk like everyone else? Why can't you just say, 'How you doin'? You doin' good?'" Very well, then, I said. I look forward to the day when every schoolchild will read Shakespeare's great comedic play All's Good That Ends Good.

No camera, no recording device, no laptop, none of this palm pilot nonsense or a cell phone. Paper and pencil, a book, maybe a bilingual dictionary. Anything beyond that (a) can be stolen, and (b) intimidates people you encounter. The more double-A batteries you carry, the more you distance yourself from the people you're writing about.

He spoke as if he held marbles in his mouth. 'Más o menos'--more or less--came out as 'maomay.' He was on a low-consonant diet, feasting on vowels

faces tell stories if you learn to read them!

One moral of this little story might be that once you've burned a bridge with lies, it may be that nothing short of divine intervention can rebuild the relationship and create a positive result.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

The life he heard over the phone was his life.

So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.

How difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others.