Quotes About Communication

by some 220 years Gutenberg's lead-cast printing type in Germany in 1450.

It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.

Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes?

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el atentando.

Toda la vida te voy a agradecer esa pregunta. Es como si me estuvieras pidiendo la mano. Ella rió al decir esto, y enseguida agregó con demacrada seriedad: No juegues conmigo niño, mira que me lo puedo tomar en serio.

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el

He slugged back the last of his coffee and stood. Nobody gets me, sweetheart. And if I want anything you've got, you'll know the minute I come after it.

Any good lover is a good listener. And a bad listener is at best a bad lover and at worst a rapist.

Whereas discussion of male puberty includes the emergence of a near unstoppable sex drive, female puberty is defined by periods and the possibility of unwanted pregnancy. When do we talk to girls about desire and pleasure?

At the same time, she [Charis Denison] offered this to an eleventh-grader whose friend was having sex with many different people. Your response doesn't have to be 'That's gross' of 'That's bad.' You can ask, 'How did that feel to you? What does it bring you? How does it serve you?' Approached in the right way, that can be a great conversation. Then, if you really care about that person, your job is to be their human shield from shame.

All these hours and chatting and things like that don't make the science better.

He [Aziz Ansari] was just another overeager guy trying to talk a woman into sex, viewing her limits as a challenge he needed to overcome in order to score. What he did was not unusual and was not, in truth, newsworthy; yet that was the very reason it was news. Because it extended the conversation beyond legality, revealing the most banal and pervasive of power dynamics: that men interpret women's behavior through the filter of their own wishes.

They [boys] are particularly eager to have their fathers talk to them about their own experience with sex, love, even regret.

We are learning to support girls as they 'lean in' educationally and professionally, yet in this most personal of realms, we allow them to topple. It's almost as if parents believe that if they don't tell their daughters that sex should feel good, they won't find out. And perhaps that's correct, they don't. Not easily anyway. But the outcome is hardly what adults could've hoped.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the threats and fears of our daily life.

Being caught by the lord of speech may start with just a reasonable conviction about what we feel to be true. However, if we find ourselves becoming righteously indignant, that's a sure sign we've gone too far and that our ability to effect change will be hindered. Beliefs and ideals have become just another way to put up walls.

Before we can heal others with our speech, we need to get a handle on our own mind and its propensities.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.

I don't respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.