Quotes About Communication

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Why the hell's he preachin' if he don't preach to people that need it?

She hung up and the room was a fist of silence.

In a small town nothing is private. Word spreads with the incomprehensibility of magic and the speed of plague.

You don't have to speak much if you speak well," Meloux replied.

And Celia, once she began, talked in a line no straighter than a sloppy drunk could have walked.

wouldn't talk to you." Cork

TRADITIONALLY THE ANISHINAABE were a quiet people. Before the whites came, they lived in the silence of great woods and more often than not, the voices they heard were not human. The wind spoke. The water sang. All sound had purpose. When an Anishinaabe approached the wigwam of another, he respectfully made noise to announce his coming. Thunder, therefore, was the respectful way of the storm in announcing its approach. Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.

Although this explains the mysterious way Meloux seemed to have known he was coming, Cork still understands that the old Mide has a gift for such forewarnings. Meloux once explained it as a communication with nature that Cork himself could nurture if he was so inclined. "It is not a secret language," the Mide had said. "You need to quiet all the other voices in your head and listen.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

little insurance in case you're inclined toward a different destination." In the Jeep, Cork followed No Voice back up the dirt track to the compound. The Arapaho and his grandson still stood in the shade of the outbuilding. Cork waved as he passed to let them know he bore them no ill will. They didn't respond, just stood watching as the two vehicles kicked up dust on their way out.

And still others heard: dreeeple zoonnnnnnggggggg ummmmmtwrrrdssss Calling from the beyond Whatever it was, it touched E.T.'s healing finger, and caused it to glow. He healed himself.

The men who rule have practiced keepin' their tongues still, not exercisin' them. So you want to drop the orator idea unless you mean to go into politics just to perform the skyrocket act.

The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

possible topics around which the currents of speech may flow: Death and the danger of death: violence, fighting, sickness, fear, dreams, premonitions and communication with the dead. Sex and relations between the sexes: dating, courtship, proposals, marriage, breaking off relationships, affairs, intermarriage. Moral indignation: assignment and rejection of blame, unfairness, injustice, gossip, violations of social norms.

We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.

We're not arguing. We're discussing." "You're a lawyer; you don't know the difference. I'm arguing.