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Quotes About Communication

Actually it's very simple, but simple things are always the hardest to explain.
~ David Eddings
Don't explain it to me, please," Anheg said. "As long as somebody I know and trust understands, that's all that's really important.
~ David Eddings
Bheid and Leitha, but he didn't say anything.
~ David Eddings
Thou art to be my companion, and it ill-behooves companions to have misapprehensions about each other.
~ David Eddings
You'll fight with each other, of course," she told him as they danced, "but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.
~ David Eddings
If all you're going to do is talk in riddles, why bother with it at all? Why go to all the trouble of saying things that nobody's able to understand?" "Because it's necessary to say it. The word determines the event. The word puts limits on the event and shapes it. Without the word, the event is merely a random happening. That's the whole purpose of what you call prophecy—to separate the significant from the random.
~ David Eddings
La gente vera non parla mica così formale.
~ David Eddings
the wisest writers, those who become most popular, learn to draw upon art and literature in order to create works that speak to audiences more strongly, more deeply, and appeal to a wider network of readers.
~ David Farland
Cuando hablamos de habilidades blandas, hablamos de capacidad de comunicación, de escucha, de regulación emocional, de empatía, de trabajo en equipo, de manejo de conflictos, entre otras.
~ Unknown
Incapacidad de lograr objetivos y decidir. Dificultad para enfrentar cambios. Incapacidad de trabajar en equipo. Mal manejo de relaciones interpersonales.
~ Unknown
El 50 % de la rotación involuntaria en el trabajo se debe a conflictos no resueltos (Mediation Training Institute, s.f.).
~ Unknown
I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
~ David Foster Wallace
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
~ David Foster Wallace
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
~ David Foster Wallace
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.
~ David Foster Wallace
The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
~ David Foster Wallace
Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...
~ David Foster Wallace
There are very few innocent sentences in writing.
~ David Foster Wallace
So yo then man what's your story?
~ David Foster Wallace
the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
~ David Foster Wallace
This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.
~ David Foster Wallace
I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.
~ David Foster Wallace
it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff--they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip from some reason.
~ David Foster Wallace
I simply must say, as crass as we are conditioned by a troubled society to regard the word, I am a firm believer in the comparative merits of the word 'fuck.
~ David Foster Wallace