Quotes About Communication

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

A gun is not an argument.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Without argument the species would parish.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.