Quotes About Communication

A tender smile softened his face. "That would be Esme. She's nine and a delight. I haven't seen much of her these past few years, but she writes me letters. Sends me drawings as well. I have a likeliness of every cat, hound, and horse she's ever met, and considering the menagerie she keeps in the country at Clybourne, that's a great many indeed.

Silence is better than a fabrication.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Say something worth the words.

I really don't want to have to put your heart back together again a second time." His gaze was direct, his eyes locked on hers. "Stop breaking it, then," he replied softly. The

By learning to uncover the concealed aspects of your current conversations and learning to engage in different types of new conversation, you can alter the way you are being, which, in turn, alters what's possible.

You are shifting from … … action occurring as "a series of activities"… … to … … action occurring as a series of conversations.

Train yourself to "listen for" requests and promises, rather than for assessments and assertions.

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

It's as if the entire human race were one big village of people whispering over and over the same message to each other, so that no one can help but believe it.

Then let me ask you something, Terry. In terms of the whole situation, if you could miraculously have your relationship with your boss altered, what would you have it be?

A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.

And even before your toddler is fully verbal, going over the day is also a wonderful idea, because it helps a child process her fears.

Make it a house rule that your toddler has to knock on your door. Model this yourself when you go into her room.

the body is what we lean toward, tensing as it darts, dancing away. but it's the voice that enters us. even saying nothing. even saying nothing over and over absently to itself

Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?

A poem can lie.)

It became apparent that communications and computing served each other so intimately that they might actually become the same thing;

So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

BARBARA: You do understand that it hurts, to go from sharing a bed with you for twenty-three years to sleeping by myself. BILL: I'm here, now. BARBARA: Men always say shit like that, as if the past and the future don't exist. BILL: Can we not make this a gender discussion? BARBARA: Do men really believe that here and now is enough? It's just horseshit, to avoid talking about the things they're afraid to say.

BARBARA: Johnna . . . what did my father say to you? (Pause.) JOHNNA: He talked a lot about his daughters . . . his three daughters, and his granddaughter. That was his joy. BARBARA: Thank you. That makes me feel better. Knowing that you can lie.

BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh, "forsook" you and the horse you rose in on!

MATTIE FAE: I don't believe you. Watchin' the baseball game and drinkin' beers. Don't you have any sense of what's going on around you? This situation is fraught. CHARLIE: Am I supposed to sit here like a statue? You're drinking whiskey. MATTIE FAE: I'm having a cocktail. CHARLIE: You're drinking straight whiskey. MATTIE FAE: Just . . . show a little class.