Quotes About Communication

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate.

Is there a word? A friend, a companion, or maybe just a sharer. What good are words? I mean, I think people often try to find through sex, things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Put simply, birds talk. They discuss everything and every one. They talk to each other. They talk to potential and existing partners. They discuss territories, predators and other animals using a combination of calls, songs and body language.

The most striking aspect of Jane's adult letters is their defensiveness. They lack tenderness towards herself as much as towards others ... They are the letters of someone who does not open her heart'. They are also, perhaps, the letters of someone who doesn't dare open her heart, for fear of what she might find there.

Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I'll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn't heard a word because she's studying my face to see if the foundation I'm using is a good match for my skin tone.

Claire: One of the hallmarks of a mother-daughter relationship is what I call the Zero to Sixty Factor. We can get instantly irritated at each other and just as instantly move on… Men don't get this. Paul will say, "Girls, stop fussing," and we'll immediately turn and say in unison, "We're not arguing.

A description of autism must be anecdotal; without anecdotes there are words but not experience.

You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?

So much of our pain is rooted in the responses of other people, or rather, in our perceptions of what those responses are or (even more painful) what they may be.

Intellectual achievement is useless without social development.

Clara Claiborne Park

application of force. How much else have I not registered? Her prosody

leaves out verbs and articles and pronouns and prepositions, in what those who know autism call "telegraphic speech.

Friendliness is learned among friends and social behavior in society.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

We sit together in silence for a while. This is what I have always liked about James. We can make a good silence together. There's something between us that doesn't need words or actions. It settles around us and I can feel it now, hovering gently, ready to wrap me in its nebulous folds, like a delicate lace shawl. I want it to be like this always, something inside us meeting and holding hands, something calm and soothing and healing.

If there is one thing I learned from Maggie it was that you accept people as they are, and you just don't demand more than they want to give.

Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?