Quotes About Communication

Le dije que me gustaba, y quedé insatisfecha. La verdad era que a veces no me gustaba nada, pero no podía vivir sin ella. Le dije que la quería, pero también quiero a mi perro. Después le dije que la amaba, pero mi incomodidad fue mayor aún [...] decidí prescindir del lenguaje, entonces me acusó de no querer comunicarme. Desde hace unos años, sólo existe el silencio. Encuentro, en él, una rara ecuanimidad: la de los placeres solitarios.

Porque no sé casi nada de ti y quiero saber, y me da miedo saber, y no quisiera preguntarte, pero te pregunto y tú no quieres hablar, preferirías un amor anónimo, que empezara hoy, o ayer, sin carnés de identidad, sin relato.

El lenguaje debió nacer así, de la pasión, no de la razón.

Christians are called to love the whole world, which includes the cultures in which we are embedded. For only by loving culture can we become effective communicators within it.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

I wanted to have a friendship with Christine [Baranski], but she turned down so many invitations to visit my home that I finally said, 'Look, you'll just have to tell me when you'd like to come over.

Everybody could see when something was troubling Christine--the writers kept asking, 'What's wrong with her?' But she never came to me directly to say she wasn't happy. That was not her way.

Having strong yet fluid relational boundaries is like wearing the zipper of our hearts on the inside rather than on the outside of us. Our true self is able to decide when to open our hearts and let someone in, or when we're open to stepping out and mingling. If we're tired or need a little time alone, we can close ourselves up a little bit or zip up entirely to get the rest we need.

We are perfect "senders and receivers" for each other.

Study after study shows that emotions can make us sick. Any time we remain locked in a negative emotional pattern, we create the conditions for physical and mental illness. Chronically stuck feelings, especially those we don't deal with, damage our neuropeptides, the cells that promote communication between all parts of our body. We then become disconnected from ourselves, and that disconnection creates alienation and disease.

Suitable relational boundaries will show us the true nature of another person or a group, and if we fail to listen, they will draw help to us. The problem is that our relational borders aren't always in fail-safe condition. We might be too isolated, as in the case of inflexible boundaries; too confused, as happens when our borders are wishy-washy; or simply broken, as occurs when we have holes or slashes in our field.

Was that how every couple functioned after time? Seeing the contours of someone else's intelligence so much more easily than your own?

Jade helped Az into the BMW. Well, helped, shoved, same thing. The guy still wasn't talking. With the bullets in him, maybe he was just in too much pain to talk right then.

Nice and easy," he whispered. "The kiss doesn't have to mean a thing." Her lips parted. That's the problem. He might be done with their relationship, but she wasn't. Everything about him still meant something to her. She started to tell him just that—

You were willing to reveal all to the authorities. You are trying to fire me. You want me gone from danger." His smile spread as he made his points. "Sweetheart, you're shouting that you love me.

It's completely up to your partner whether or not to share this information with anyone else.

One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney.