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Quotes About Communication

When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.
~ Robert James Thomson
If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.
~ Roger McGuinn
You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
~ Harvey Mackay
Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel
~ Mariah Carey
Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.
~ Richard Branson
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
~ Dale Carnegie
Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.
~ Curtis Jackson
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.
~ Harold Pinter
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
~ N. Scott Momaday
If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.
~ David Duchovny
Being caught by the lord of speech may start with just a reasonable conviction about what we feel to be true. However, if we find ourselves becoming righteously indignant, that's a sure sign that we've gone too far and that our ability to effect change will be hindered.
~ Pema Chodron
Even if we're alone, our yawns and farts communicate.
~ Pema Chodron
Let's say that matters hadn't gone quite right with you, I mean personal matters, would you be able to find words to say exactly what was wrong?' 'I'm afraid so, yes, I would.' 'That might be useful, of course.' 'Like manufacturers' instructions. In case of failure, try words.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Annie - although she also knew that those who don't speak have to pay it off in thinking - was resolved on silence. Whatever happened, and after all she was obliged to see Mr brooks two or three times every day, though she by no means looked forward to it, feeling herself more truly alive when she could picture him steadily without seeing him - whatever happened, he needn't know how daft she was.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Es un buen libro y, por lo tanto, debería intentar vendérselo a los habitantes de Hardborough. No lo entenderán, pero será mejor así. Entender las cosas hace que la mente se vuelva perezosa.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a different question for every entity, which for the most part will never be put into words, even by those who can speak.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
But there is something else which I have written and which I want to read to you while I still have time,' Fritz told Karoline. 'It will not truly exist until you have heard it.' 'Is
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. Later, I made an inventory of the room – a naming of parts: bed, chair, table, picture, vase, cupboard, window, curtain. Curtain. And I breathed again.
~ Penelope Lively
That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely
~ Penelope Lively
When you prefer soup and the telly to a few hours with your lover there is something not quite right.
~ Penelope Lively
I've been like someone with a bad cold, all kind of shut up inside myself, not being able to hear other people. Just shouting out at them sometimes.
~ Penelope Lively
Helen,' said Mr Harrison, with a sigh, 'we all know that living with James can be very trying. But it does help to develop a resistance to some of his more flagrant lines of deception.
~ Penelope Lively
Still, if that's the way she feels about it there's not much use you going home now and saying "Look mum, I got a bloke coming in tomorrow to see about the ghost", is there?
~ Penelope Lively
Sometimes thoughts merely pass through a man's head without mishap, but sometimes they fall out of his mouth on the way through.
~ Unknown