Quotes About Communication

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.