Quotes About Communication

Tacit knowledge is personal, context-specific, and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Explicit or "codified" knowledge, on the other hand, refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language.

TEACHER: Kevin, how do you spell crocodile? KEVIN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L. TEACHER: No, I'm sorry, that's wrong. KEVIN: It can't be. You asked me how I spell it!

TEACHER: Mrs. Jones, I asked you to come in to discuss Johnny's appearance. MRS. JONES: Why? What's wrong with his appearance? TEACHER: He hasn't made one in this classroom since September.

The energy of life entering and leaving your body flows evenly throughout the universe. With that current, the mind of the cosmos communicates with all things.

Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. —VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary

An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is in effect a new Babel. 'Postmodernism' represents that Babel perfectly, because when each speaks a language unrelated to that of the other - when language is not the basis of the communication that shapes our being - the only outcome can be fragmentation. In that sense, postmodernism is modernity come home to roost.

She'd been in America almost three years now, but she still wasn't used to it, the same language sure, but they had different words for everything; she'd learned that a scone was a biscuit, that sidewalk meant a pavement, and that autumn was fall.

They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.

Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!

The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading. If your desk is clean and no one is bringing you problems, you should be very worried. It means that people don't think you can solve them or don't want to hear about them. Or, far worse, it means they don't think you care.

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

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Tell me what you know. • Tell me what you don't know. • Then tell me what you think. • Always distinguish which from which.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people--motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people centered. Colin Powell

Let me know about a problem as soon as you know about it.

Butch knew before he walked in that he was entering the lion's den, and he wasn't surprised when he got thrown out. Word quickly spread around the Pentagon, as it always does when things like that happen. Not long after I heard about it I ran into Butch in a hallway. As we walked along, I offered him comforting words. "Hey," he said quietly, "he don't pay me to give him happy talk.

We have been married to the French for more than 230 years . . . and in marriage counseling with them for more than 230 years;

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.